Table 3.
Percentages of absolute phone-onset differences under various tolerances.
| Set | Aligner | No. of intervals | Differences in onset times (ms) |
Percent differences |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median | IQR | M | < 25 ms | < 50 ms | < 100 ms | |||
| All intervals | MFA-SAT | 33,545 | 20 | 31 | 35 | 60 | 85 | 95 |
| MFA-No-SAT | 33,545 | 20 | 32 | 42 | 57 | 81 | 92 | |
| Kaldi | 33,545 | 20 | 35 | 63 | 55 | 77 | 87 | |
| P2FA | 33,545 | 25 | 44 | 56 | 50 | 73 | 86 | |
| Prosodylab | 33,545 | 28 | 44 | 56 | 46 | 74 | 86 | |
| Only accurate intervals | MFA-SAT | 29,066 | 18 | 27 | 26 | 64 | 89 | 98 |
| MFA-No-SAT | 26,471 | 17 | 25 | 26 | 64 | 89 | 97 | |
| Kaldi | 25,871 | 17 | 25 | 28 | 64 | 88 | 96 | |
| P2FA | 23,019 | 19 | 25 | 28 | 62 | 87 | 97 | |
| Prosodylab | 21,190 | 20 | 38 | 29 | 58 | 85 | 96 | |
| All intervals from interrater reliability subset | Manual | 2,215 | 10 | 26 | 26 | 72 | 85 | 94 |
| MFA-SAT | 2,215 | 20 | 31 | 34 | 56 | 84 | 95 | |
| MFA-No-SAT | 2,215 | 24 | 37 | 48 | 51 | 77 | 89 | |
| Kaldi | 2,215 | 26 | 54 | 91 | 49 | 71 | 81 | |
| P2FA | 2,215 | 28 | 54 | 62 | 46 | 69 | 82 | |
| Prosodylab | 2,215 | 30 | 45 | 64 | 42 | 72 | 85 | |
Note. MFA = Montreal Forced Aligner; SAT = speaker adaptive training; P2FA = Penn Phonetics Lab Forced Aligner.