2. RESULTS 2.1. EFFECTS OF DEVICE. Here we present the full results for the effect of
each device on the acoustic measurements. All statistical results are from mixed effects …

This paper presents the first systematic acoustic analysis of a rhotic accent in present-day
England. The dataset comprises spontaneous and elicited speech of 28 speakers from …

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

This paper analyzes td-deletion, the process whereby coronal stops/t, d/are deleted after a
consonant at the end of the word (eg, best, kept, missed) in the speech of 93 speakers from …

Purpose Acoustic measurement of speech sounds requires first segmenting the speech
signal into relevant units (words, phones, etc.). Manual segmentation is cumbersome and …

We propose a rapid adaptation of FAVE-Align to the Nordic languages, and we offer our own
adaptation to Swedish as a template. This study is motivated by the fact that researchers of …

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 …

There is growing interest in how speech technologies perform on L2 speech. Largely
omitted from this discussion are tools used in the early data processing steps, such as forced …

Automatic evaluation of phone-level pronunciation scores typically involves two stages:(1)
automatic phonetic segmentation via text-constrained phoneme alignment and (2) …

While forced alignment has become an essential part of data processing in phonetic
research, state-of-the-art aligners are often exclusively tailor-made for majority dialects, such …