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Under what separate terms are the Montreal Forced Aligner code and its English acoustic model released, what training data and performance caveats does the model page state, and what does the model page say about its own accuracy metric?

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MFA code is MIT while the English acoustic model v3.0.0 is CC BY 4.0 and lists its training corpora; its 0% WER/CER is on training data (not held-out); the page warns about demographic bias and recording consent. Pronunciation dictionaries carry separate licences (not read).

MFA code is MIT while the English acoustic model v3.0.0 is CC BY 4.0 and lists its training corpora; its 0% WER/CER is on training data (not held-out); the page warns about demographic bias and recording consent. Pronunciation dictionaries carry separate licences (not read). Curator qualifications: Pages/code/paper read 2026-10-22; no alignment run. Training-corpus licences not inspected; dictionary licences separate. Limitations: Pages/code/paper read 2026-10-22; no alignment run. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/MontrealCorpusTools/Montreal-Forced-Aligner/blob/93411fc0df3bc770dfd34c4282dc136fdf6e8dcb/LICENSE",
      "note": "MFA LICENSE at 93411fc0 (raw); English MFA acoustic model v3.0.0 page"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/MontrealCorpusTools/Montreal-Forced-Aligner/blob/93411fc0df3bc770dfd34c4282dc136fdf6e8dcb/README.md",
      "note": "MFA LICENSE at 93411fc0 (raw); English MFA acoustic model v3.0.0 page"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://mfa-models.readthedocs.io/en/latest/acoustic/English/English%20MFA%20acoustic%20model%20v3_0_0.html",
      "note": "MFA LICENSE at 93411fc0 (raw); English MFA acoustic model v3.0.0 page"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

  • [sourced_fact] MFA code is MIT while the English acoustic model v3.0.0 is CC BY 4.0 and lists its training corpora; its 0% WER/CER is on training data (not held-out); the page warns about demographic bias and recording consent. Pronunciation dictionaries carry separate licences (not read). · locator: MFA LICENSE at 93411fc0 (raw); English MFA acoustic model v3.0.0 page source

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