Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Forced Alignment(also: Phonetic Alignment, Phone-Level Alignment)
- Forced alignment is an automatic speech processing technique that aligns a speech recording with its known transcription at the phoneme or word level. Unlike free speech recognition which determines the most likely sequence of sounds, forced alignment constrains the recognizer…
- Formant Synthesis(also: Rule-based Synthesis, Parametric Synthesis)
- A text-to-speech method that generates synthetic speech by modeling the acoustic properties of human vocal production, particularly formants (resonant frequencies of the vocal tract). Rather than using recorded speech segments, formant synthesizers use mathematical rules and…
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