What does an independent evaluation measure when it compares MFA, WhisperX and MMS word alignment against manual alignments, and what are its stated limits?
Against manual alignments on TIMIT and Buckeye (words correctly recognised only), MFA places more word boundaries within 10-100 ms than WhisperX or MMS; on Buckeye WhisperX reaches only 77.4% within 100 ms. The authors note their Buckeye result differs from the original MFA paper (possible long-utterance drift).
Against manual alignments on TIMIT and Buckeye (words correctly recognised only), MFA places more word boundaries within 10-100 ms than WhisperX or MMS; on Buckeye WhisperX reaches only 77.4% within 100 ms. The authors note their Buckeye result differs from the original MFA paper (possible long-utterance drift).
Curator qualifications: Pages/code/paper read 2026-10-22; no alignment run. Restricted to correctly recognised words; English read/conversational corpora only.
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.
Structured fields
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"citations": [
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"url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.19363",
"note": "Rousso et al. arXiv 2406.19363v1 PDF, Tables 1-2; Section 2"
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}Evidence claims
- [sourced_fact] Against manual alignments on TIMIT and Buckeye (words correctly recognised only), MFA places more word boundaries within 10-100 ms than WhisperX or MMS; on Buckeye WhisperX reaches only 77.4% within 100 ms. The authors note their Buckeye result differs from the original MFA paper (possible long-utterance drift). · locator: Rousso et al. arXiv 2406.19363v1 PDF, Tables 1-2; Section 2 source
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Linked records
- cites → https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.19363