eng.yaml

# for human reading only
authors: Kyle Gorman
language: English
citation: "K. Gorman, J. Howell, and M. Wagner. 2011. Prosodylab-Aligner: A tool for forced alignment of laboratory speech. Canadian Acoustics, 39(3), 192-193."
URL: http://prosodylab.org/tools/aligner/

# basic features
samplerate: 16000 # in Hz
phoneset: [AA0, AA1, AA2, AE0, AE1, AE2, AH0, AH1, AH2, AO0, AO1, AO2,
           AW0, AW1, AW2, AY0, AY1, AY2, EH0, EH1, EH2, ER0, ER1, ER2,
           EY0, EY1, EY2, IH0, IH1, IH2, IY0, IY1, IY2, OW0, OW1, OW2,
           OY0, OY1, OY2, UH0, UH1, UH2, UW0, UW1, UW2,
           B, CH, D, DH, F, G, HH, JH, K, L, M, N, NG, P, R,
           S, SH, T, TH, V, W, Y, Z, ZH]

# specs for feature extractor; change at your own risk
HCopy:
    SOURCEKIND: WAVEFORM
    SOURCEFORMAT: WAVE
    TARGETRATE: 100000.0
    TARGETKIND: MFCC_D_A_0
    WINDOWSIZE: 250000.0
    PREEMCOEF: 0.97
    USEHAMMING: T
    ENORMALIZE: T
    CEPLIFTER: 22
    NUMCHANS: 20
    NUMCEPS: 12

# pruning parameters, to use globally; change at your own risk
pruning: [250, 100, 5000]

# specs for flat start; change at your own risk
HCompV:
    F: .01

# specs for estimation; change at your own risk
HERest:
    TARGETRATE: 100000.0
    TARGETKIND: MFCC_D_A_0
    WINDOWSIZE: 250000.0
    PREEMCOEF: 0.97
    USEHAMMING: T
    ENORMALIZE: T
    CEPLIFTER: 22
    NUMCHANS: 20
    NUMCEPS: 12

# specs for the decoder; change at your own risk
HVite:
    SFAC: 5