arxivcs.CLcs.AI2026-07-23
Phonetic forced alignment for low-resource language varieties: Model training and evaluation on Chengdu Mandarin
Zhiheng Qian, Aini Li, Hai Hu, Liang Zhao
Phonetic forced alignment is a key technique in phonetic research, yet existing alignment systems lack specialized models for low-resource language varieties. We address this by training text-dependent and text-independent aligners for Chengdu Mandarin using a 17-hour corpus and…