Phonetic Helper Directory (PHD) is a directory of scripts and instructions for exploring the Montreal Forced Aligner (MFA).

A sane build environment is expected, along with ffmpeg and python3.

Pre-trained Spanish language and pronunciation models can be downloaded by running:

python3 install/models.py spanish

Installing requirements

 chmod +x install_requirements.sh
 
 ./install_requirements.sh

Compilation of Kaldi, Phonetisaurus, and MFA:

sh install.sh

python3 align.py TEXTFILE_IN AUDIOFILE_IN JSON_OUT