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BFA: Real-time Multilingual Text-to-speech Forced Alignment
Abdul Rehman, Jingyao Cai, Jian-Jun Zhang +1
We present Bournemouth Forced Aligner (BFA), a system that combines a Contextless Universal Phoneme Encoder (CUPE) with a connectionist temporal classification (CTC)based decoder.…
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CUPE: Contextless Universal Phoneme Encoder for Language-Agnostic Speech Processing
Abdul Rehman, Jian-Jun Zhang, Xiaosong Yang
Universal phoneme recognition typically requires analyzing long speech segments and language-specific patterns. Many speech processing tasks require pure phoneme representations fr…