This volume offers a critical examination of the construction of the Spoken British National
Corpus 2014 (Spoken BNC2014) and points the way forward toward a more informed …

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 …

This paper investigates the emergence of lexicalized effects of word usage on word duration
by looking at parallel changes in usage and duration over 130 years in New Zealand …

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

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 …

There is now abundant evidence that phonetic forms are shaped by probabilistic effects
reflecting predictability or informativity. We outline a number of challenges for such work …

Vowel contrasts may be reduced or neutralized before coda laterals in English [Bernard
(1985). The Cultivated Australian: Festschrift in Honour of Arthur Delbridge, pp. 319–332; …

We compare recursive and linear approaches to force-aligned data from Matukar Panau, an
endangered language of Papua New Guinea. Data were force aligned with the train/align …

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 one of the fundamental pieces in speech recognition, and we generally
overlook the errors in the forced alignment process. It is extremely time consuming to look for …