Forced aligners work better on adults than children. We tried different aligner configs with HTK and MFA, thinking that using child speech in training data would be important. We were wrong, MFA with models pretrained on lots of adult speech was better than anything else!

k And thanks Language Development Research for being a cool Open Science journal! "We don't believe in locking articles behind paywalls, in charging taxpayers and universities to publish research they've already funded..." ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu

Language Development Research Dr. Lena V Kremin Concordia University Princeton University It was a wonderful experience publishing with Language Development Research ! So glad we have this platinum #OpenAccess journal in our field! Two thumbs up 👍 👍

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