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This paper presents automatic alignment of Russian phonetic pronunciations using the information about phonetic nature of speech sounds in the aligned transcription sequences. This approach has been tested on 24 hours of speech data and has shown significant improvement in alignment errors has been obtained in comparison with commonly used Levenstein algorithm: the numbers of error has been reduced from 1.1 % to 0.27 %.
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Kocharov, D. (2014). Automatic Alignment of Phonetic Transcriptions for Russian. In: Ronzhin, A., Potapova, R., Delic, V. (eds) Speech and Computer. SPECOM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8773. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11581-8_15
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