This is a very basic notebook that highlights a simple workflow on how to use the montreal-forced-aligner, comprising of

• Generating praat {textgrid files, waveform} samples
• Validating the sentence content for out-of-vocabulary (oov) words
• Phonemizing them and adding them to an existing dictionary
• Aligning the waveform with the given transcription

Installation

run conda env create -f environment.yaml If this fails for some reason, manually create the venv and install the packages via:

    conda create -n aligner -c conda-forge montreal-forced-aligner python=3.10
    conda install -c conda-forge montreal-forced-aligner
    pip install speechbrain, num2words, praat-textgrids