Alessio Tosolini


2025

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Multilingual MFA: Forced Alignment on Low-Resource Related Languages
Alessio Tosolini | Claire Bowern
Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages

We compare the outcomes of multilingual and crosslingual training for related and unrelated Australian languages with similar phonologi- cal inventories. We use the Montreal Forced Aligner to train acoustic models from scratch and adapt a large English model, evaluating results against seen data, unseen data (seen lan- guage), and unseen data and language. Results indicate benefits of adapting the English base- line model for previously unseen languages.