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Phonetic forced alignment for low-resource language varieties: Model training and evaluation on Chengdu Mandarin

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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 a custom G2P dictionary.

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