@inproceedings{leinonen-etal-2021-grapheme,
    title = "Grapheme-Based Cross-Language Forced Alignment: Results with {U}ralic Languages",
    author = "Leinonen, Juho  and
      Virpioja, Sami  and
      Kurimo, Mikko",
    editor = "Dobnik, Simon  and
      {\O}vrelid, Lilja",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)",
    month = may # " 31--2 " # jun,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Reykjavik, Iceland (Online)",
    publisher = {Link{\"o}ping University Electronic Press, Sweden},
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2021.nodalida-main.36/",
    pages = "345--350",
    abstract = "Forced alignment is an effective process to speed up linguistic research. However, most forced aligners are language-dependent, and under-resourced languages rarely have enough resources to train an acoustic model for an aligner. We present a new Finnish grapheme-based forced aligner and demonstrate its performance by aligning multiple Uralic languages and English as an unrelated language. We show that even a simple non-expert created grapheme-to-phoneme mapping can result in useful word alignments."
}