Why don't you use large audio files with timestamps in the transcriptions?
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Adminvox
Date: 5/25/2006 9:50 am
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HTK seems to take much less time to compile
a set of smaller audio files (with no more that 10-15 utterances)
rather than one large transcribed audio file (even if your transcribed
utterances have start and end time information included).