LJ Speech - Aligned IPA transcriptions

Files:

grids.zip

contains TextGrids for all audio files containing three tiers words, phonemes and transcription

words contains the aligned normalized English words

phonemes contains IPA pronunciations transcribed using CMU dictionary which then were aligned with Montreal Forced Aligner. The pronunciations were then mapped from ARPAbet to IPA and duration marks were applied (without punctuation)

transcription contains unaligned phonemes including punctuation and word boundary labels (SIL0)

preview.png

preview of the first TextGrid opened in Praat

words-vocabulary.txt

contains all words from tier words

phonemes-vocabulary.txt

contains all phonemes from tier phonemes

transcription-vocabulary.txt

contains all phonemes/punctuation from tier transcription

phonemes-durations.pdf

contains the plotted phoneme duration distribution of tier phonemes

phonemes-durations-simple.pdf

contains the plotted phoneme duration distribution of tier phonemes if all duration markers are ignored

pronunciations.dict

contains the pronunciations for each word including punctuation and weights (occurrence)

script.sh

contains the script to reproduce all results

Phoneme duration marker:

˘ -> [0, 20) percentile

ˑ -> [80, 90) percentile

ː -> [90, inf) percentile

Silence marker:

SIL0 -> no silence

SIL1 -> [0, 33.33) percentile

SIL2 -> [33.33, 66.66) percentile

SIL3 -> [66.66, inf) percentile