Tools, datasets, and tutorials

1. IPA

   IPA Keyboard

   Cong Zhang

   2022

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   This is an IPA keyboard which does not show the three-term labels or arrange the symbols according to the IPA chart. This is mainly for digital phonetics exams or studying for exams. For anyone who has a phonetics exam on computer and needs a keyboard that doesn’t reveal all the answers:

   @misc{zhang2026ipakeyboard,
     author = {Zhang, Cong},
     title = {{IPA Keyboard}},
     year = {2022},
     category = {tool}
   }

2. tutorial

   MFA 2.0 Installation and Usage

   Cong Zhang

   2022

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   This is a tutorial for MFA 2.0 Installation and Usage on Windows. MFA official website does not have instructions for Windows installation. It is quite complicated since it requires running Linux on Windows. You need admin access to be able to install everything.

   @misc{zhang2023reaper,
     author = {Zhang, Cong},
     title = {{MFA 2.0 Installation and Usage}},
     year = {2022},
     category = {tutorial},
     doi = {10.31219/osf.io/yu48g}
   }

3. CharsiuG2P

   CharsiuG2P

   Jian Zhu, Cong Zhang, and David Jurgens

   2022

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   CharsiuG2P is transformer based tool for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion in 100 languages. Given an orthographic word, CharsiuG2P predicts its pronunciation through a neural G2P model.

   @misc{zhu2022charsiug2p,
     author = {Zhu, Jian and Zhang, Cong and Jurgens, David},
     title = {{CharsiuG2P}},
     year = {2022},
     category = {tool}
   }

4. dictionary

   CharsiuG2P: pronunciation dictionaries

   Jian Zhu, Cong Zhang, and David Jurgens

   2022

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   Data collected for the CharsiuG2P project. This is a collection of pronunciation dictionaries for over 100 languages.

   @misc{zhu2022charsiug2p-dict,
     author = {Zhu, Jian and Zhang, Cong and Jurgens, David},
     title = {CharsiuG2P: pronunciation dictionaries},
     year = {2022},
     category = {tool}
   }

5. data

   CharsiuG2P-Data: A Multi-lingual G2P Corpora

   Jian Zhu, Cong Zhang, and David Jurgens

   2022

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   Data collected for the CharsiuG2P project. This is a collection of pronunciation dictionaries for over 100 languages.

   @misc{zhu2022charsiug2p-resources,
     author = {Zhu, Jian and Zhang, Cong and Jurgens, David},
     title = {CharsiuG2P-Data: A Multi-lingual G2P Corpora},
     year = {2022},
     category = {tool}
   }

6. R package

   R Package “rhythm_metrics”

   Cong Zhang

   2022

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   The rhythm.metrics package is designed for calculating and visualising speech rhythm metrics. This package provides the calculation of Delta C / Delta V, VarcoC / VarcoV, %V, rPVI_C, nPVI_V.

   @misc{zhang2022rhythm,
     author = {Zhang, Cong},
     title = {{R Package “rhythm_metrics”}},
     year = {2022},
     category = {tool}
   }

7. dataset

   Phoneme and word level forced aligned data: Common Voice - English (860,000 utterances)

   Jian Zhu, and Cong Zhang

   2022

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   Word & phone alignments for  2000 hrs of English from Common Voice (https://github.com/lingjzhu/charsiu/blob/main/misc/data.md#alignments-for-english-datasets). Some data come with demographic annotations. Great for studying speech styles, accents & variations

   @misc{zhu2022aligned-en,
     author = {Zhu, Jian and Zhang, Cong},
     title = {{Phoneme and word level forced aligned data: Common Voice - English (860,000 utterances)}},
     year = {2022},
     category = {dataset}
   }

8. dataset

   Phoneme and word level forced aligned data: multiple datasets - Mandarin (over 1 million utterances)

   Jian Zhu, and Cong Zhang

   2022

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   Phone & word alignments for  1300 hours of open-source Mandarin speech datasets. Automatically aligned with our own Charsiu Forced Aligner.

   @misc{zhu2022aligned-cn,
     author = {Zhu, Jian and Zhang, Cong},
     title = {{Phoneme and word level forced aligned data: multiple datasets - Mandarin (over 1 million utterances)}},
     year = {2022},
     category = {dataset}
   }

9. mapping

   Phonological feature mapping for FeatureTTS

   Cong Zhang, and Huinan Zeng

   2021

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   Phone & word alignments for  1300 hours of open-source Mandarin speech datasets. Automatically aligned with our own Charsiu Forced Aligner.

   @misc{zhang2021TTS,
     author = {Zhang, Cong and Zeng, Huinan},
     title = {{Phonological feature mapping for FeatureTTS}},
     year = {2021},
     category = {dataset},
     doi = {10.5281/ZENODO.5553685}
   }

10. alinger

    Phone-to-audio alignment without text: A Semi-supervised Approach

    Jian Zhu, Cong Zhang, and David Jurgens

    2021

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    Charsiu is a phonetic alignment tool, which can: (1) force-align given speech audio + text transcription to phone level; and/or (2) automatically recognise the text in speech audio without the need for any transcription. It is currently available in both Mandarin Chinese and English (mainly American English).

    @misc{zhu2022phone-charsiu,
      title = {Phone-to-audio alignment without text: A Semi-supervised Approach},
      author = {Zhu, Jian and Zhang, Cong and Jurgens, David}
    }

11. tutorial

    Compiling REAPER (Robust Epoch And Pitch EstimatoR)

    Cong Zhang

    2022

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    This file is to help you with installing REAPER (David Talkin, https://github.com/google/REAPER) on a Windows computer.

    @misc{zhang2021reaper,
      author = {Zhang, Cong},
      title = {{Compiling REAPER (Robust Epoch And Pitch EstimatoR)}},
      year = {2022},
      category = {tutorial},
      doi = {10.31219/osf.io/bz5wk}
    }

12. tutorial

    Installing and Using the Penn Forced Aligner (P2FA) Chinese

    Cong Zhang

    2018

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    This tutorial helps you with installing P2FA for Mandarin Chinese on a Windows computer.

    @misc{zhang2021reapes,
      author = {Zhang, Cong},
      title = {{Installing and Using the Penn Forced Aligner (P2FA) Chinese}},
      year = {2018},
      category = {tutorial},
      doi = {10.31219/osf.io/542qj}
    }