 ##  [Forced Alignment](/forced-alignment) 

  ##  [Forced Alignment](https://humanitites.quantumdictionary.io/forced-alignment-0) 

  
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**Humanities &amp; Arts Dictionary**

 
Definition

A computational procedure that aligns an existing orthographic transcript to a speech recording by assigning time‑stamps to words or phonetic segments, using acoustic models and decoding algorithms; commonly used to generate time‑aligned corpora and to support prosodic or phonetic analysis.