Yi-Chao Zhou

FA-Bench: A Benchmark for Word-Level and Phone-Level Forced-Alignment and ASR Timestamps Under Clean and Noisy Conditions

Forced alignment aligns speech audio with a text transcript to generate word and phone timestamps. Published comparisons normalize transcripts, split the data and match boundaries differently, so their numbers cannot be read together. We present FA-Bench, an open framework that fixes those choices once and releases the...