Recent years have seen numerous advances in natural language processing that can help
accelerate sociophonetic work. These include software to align speech recordings with their …

This paper presents an analysis of the performance and usability of automatic speech
processing tools on six different varieties of English spoken in the British Isles. The tools …

Forced aligners have revolutionized sociophonetics, but while there are several forced
aligners available, there are few systematic comparisons of their performance. Here, we …

This textbook introduces the fundamental concepts and methods of corpus linguistics for
students approaching this topic for the first time, putting specific emphasis on the enormous …

The transcription of covert recordings used as evidence in court is a huge issue for forensic
linguistics. Covert recordings are typically made under conditions in which the device needs …

Language documentation as a subfield of linguistics has arisen over the past roughly two
and a half decades more or less simultaneously with the widespread availability of …

Phonetic forced alignment can greatly expedite spoken language analysis by providing
automatictimealignmentsattheword-andphone-levels. Inthecaseoflow-resourcelanguages, it …

Until recently, large-scale phonetic analyses have been out of reach for under-documented
languages, but with the advent of methodologies such as forced alignment, they have now …

Forced alignment is an effective process to speed up linguistic research. However, most
forced aligners are language-dependent, and under-resourced languages rarely have …

Forced alignment (FA) plays a key role in speech research through the automatic time
alignment of speech signals with corresponding text transcriptions. Despite the move …