Hi Ken,
On 32bit version of Ubuntu HTK compiled without a problem. Then I followed the tutorial "Automated Audio Segmentation Using Forced Alignment" without a hitch up to step 6. In Audacity I see a considerable misalignement between audio and labels. For example in the phrase "Chapter Four, Part One" the audio corresponding to label "part" contains sounds "part one", and the audio corresponding to label "one" contains only silence. Is it a normal misalignement or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks a lot,
--Sergey
Hi Sergey,
>Looks like I have posted the message in a wrong thread
It's a bit confusing, but this forum is OK - since your question relates to stuff on the dev page. I really should have a comments page on the Automated Audio Segmentation page... but never got around to it :)
Ken
Hi Sergey,
>Is it a normal misalignement or am I doing something wrong?
It all depends on the acoustic model - the better the AM, the better the alignments. Are you using the current stable VoxForge acoustic model or one of the nightly builds?
Remember for audio segmentation, we don't need perfect alignment, just one good enough to pick out the silences.
Ken
Hi Sergey,
I fixed the link to the audiobook used in the automated segmentation howto:
![[SND]](http://www.repository.voxforge1.org/spicons/sound2.gif)
historyofengland01ch04_01_macaulay.wav 04-Mar-2007 14:32 165M
Look at this audio with the labels I generated (audacityLabelTrack.txt) in Audacity ... are yours any worse/better than these?
Ken
> Are you using the current stable VoxForge acoustic model or one of the nightly builds?
I used the nightly build, because when I click the click to the "current stable release" I get "Error 404: NOT FOUND!"
> ...are yours any worse/better than these?
Oh, mine are much worse. Yours are perfect compared to mine.
Hi Sergey,
>Now the alignment look good!
Now that's interesting ... for the longest time, the nightly build AM performed better than the current stable release ... I'll have to look in to this.
thanks for your feedback!
Ken