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Polish MFA dictionary v2.0.0a#

  • Maintainer: Montreal Forced Aligner

  • Language: Polish

  • Dialect: N/A

  • Phone set: MFA

  • Number of words: 156,517

  • Phones: a b bʲ c dʐ dʑ d̪ d̪z̪ f fʲ i j j̃ k l m mʲ n̪ p pʲ r rʲ s̪ tɕ tʂ tʲ t̪ t̪s̪ u v vʲ w x z̪ ç ŋ ɔ ɔ̃ ɕ ɛ ɛ̃ ɟ ɡ ɨ ɲ ʂ ʎ ʐ ʑ ʔ

  • License: CC BY 4.0

  • Compatible MFA version: v2.0.0

  • Citation:

@techreport{mfa_polish_mfa_dictionary_2022,
	author={McAuliffe, Michael and Sonderegger, Morgan},
	title={Polish MFA dictionary v2.0.0a},
	address={\url{https://mfa-models.readthedocs.io/pronunciation dictionary/Polish/Polish MFA dictionary v2_0_0a.html}},
	year={2022},
	month={May},
}

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Installation#

Install from the MFA command line:

mfa model download dictionary polish_mfa

Or download from the release page.

The dictionary available from the release page and command line installation has pronunciation and silence probabilities estimated as part acoustic model training (see Silence probability format and training pronunciation probabilities for more information. If you would like to use the version of this dictionary without probabilities, please see the plain dictionary.

Intended use#

This dictionary is intended for forced alignment of Polish transcripts.

This dictionary uses the MFA phone set for Polish, and was used in training the Polish MFA acoustic model. Pronunciations can be added on top of the dictionary, as long as no additional phones are introduced.

Performance Factors#

When trying to get better alignment accuracy, adding pronunciations is generally helpful, especially for different styles and dialects. The most impactful improvements will generally be seen when adding reduced variants that involve deleting segments/syllables common in spontaneous speech. Alignment must include all phones specified in the pronunciation of a word, and each phone has a minimum duration (by default 10ms). If a speaker pronounces a multisyllabic word with just a single syllable, it can be hard for MFA to fit all the segments in, so it will lead to alignment errors on adjacent words as well.

Ethical considerations#

Deploying any Speech-to-Text model into any production setting has ethical implications. You should consider these implications before use.

Demographic Bias#

You should assume every machine learning model has demographic bias unless proven otherwise. For pronunciation dictionaries, it is often the case that transcription accuracy and lexicon coverage for the prestige variety modeled in this dictionary compared to other variants. If you are using this dictionary in production, you should acknowledge this as a potential issue.

IPA Charts#

Consonants#

Obstruent symbols to the left of are unvoiced and those to the right are voiced.

Manner

Labial

Labiodental

Dental

Alveolar

Retroflex

Palatal

Velar

Glottal

Nasal
Occurrences:
34,991
Examples:
* pijam:
[p ʲ i j a m]
* matka:
[m a t ̪ k a]
* domy:
[d ̪ ɔ m ɨ]
* zms:
[z ̪ ɛ t ̪ ɛ m ɛ s ̪]
Occurrences:
10,573
Examples:
* ćmię:
[t ɕ m ʲ ɛ]
* ominą:
[ɔ m ʲ i n ̪ ɔ ̃]
* sumik:
[s ̪ u m ʲ i k]
* łamią:
[w a m ʲ ɔ ̃]
Occurrences:
59,597
Examples:
* łowny:
[w ɔ v n ̪ ɨ]
* dona:
[d ̪ ɔ n ̪ a]
* malin:
[m a ʎ i n ̪]
* pełna:
[p ɛ w n ̪ a]
Occurrences:
30,442
Examples:
* unię:
[u ɲ ɛ]
* błądź:
[b w ɔ ɲ t ɕ]
* manil:
[m a ɲ i l]
* waleń:
[v a l ɛ ɲ]
Occurrences:
2,016
Examples:
* sęku:
[s ̪ ɛ ŋ k u]
* pałąk:
[p a w ɔ ŋ k]
* tęgim:
[t ̪ ɛ ŋ ɟ i m]
* tonga:
[t ̪ ɔ ŋ ɡ a]

Stop
Occurrences:
37,180
Examples:
* stup:
[s ̪ t ̪ u p]
* gapę:
[ɡ a p ɛ]
* ślepo:
[ɕ l ɛ p ɔ]
* lampy:
[l a m p ɨ]
Occurrences:
16,242
Examples:
* ebc:
[ɛ b ɛ t ̪ s ̪ ɛ]
* błędy:
[b w ɛ n ̪ d ̪ ɨ]
* rębem:
[r ɛ m b ɛ m]
* boki:
[b ɔ c i]
Occurrences:
45,446
Examples:
* efd:
[ɛ t ̪]
* trupę:
[t ̪ r u p ɛ]
* joint:
[d ʐ ɔ j n ̪ t ̪]
* klatę:
[k l a t ̪ ɛ]
Occurrences:
25,313
Examples:
* rudek:
[r u d ̪ ɛ k]
* żmuda:
[ʐ m u d ̪ a]
* itd:
[i ɛ t ̪ ɛ d ̪ ɛ]
* medya:
[m ɛ d ̪ ɨ a]
Occurrences:
9,388
Examples:
* kinie:
[c i ɲ ɛ]
* lotki:
[l ɔ t ̪ c i]
* pyski:
[p ɨ s ̪ c i]
* gryki:
[ɡ r ɨ c i]
Occurrences:
1,794
Examples:
* gięta:
[ɟ ɛ n ̪ t ̪ a]
* giś:
[ɟ i ɕ]
* progi:
[p r ɔ ɟ i]
* giża:
[ɟ i ʐ a]
Occurrences:
41,335
Examples:
* krach:
[k r a x]
* obrok:
[ɔ b r ɔ k]
* łatek:
[w a t ̪ ɛ k]
* cox:
[t ̪ s ̪ ɔ k s ̪]
Occurrences:
18,555
Examples:
* gras:
[ɡ r a s ̪]
* gleb:
[ɡ l ɛ p]
* gdzie:
[ɡ d ʑ ɛ]
* agory:
[a ɡ ɔ r ɨ]
Occurrences:
190
Examples:
* deem:
[d ̪ ɛ ʔ ɛ m]
* groom:
[ɡ r ɔ ʔ ɔ m]
* zoo:
[z ̪ ɔ ʔ ɔ]
* osp:
[ɔ ʔ ɛ s ̪ p ɛ]

Affricate
Occurrences:
20,532
Examples:
* plac:
[p l a t ̪ s ̪]
* lisic:
[ʎ i ɕ i t ̪ s ̪]
* cenny:
[t ̪ s ̪ ɛ n ̪ ɨ]
* car:
[t ̪ s ̪ a r]
Occurrences:
2,172
Examples:
* rdzak:
[r d ̪ z ̪ a k]
* widzą:
[v ʲ i d ̪ z ̪ ɔ ̃]
* rdzą:
[r d ̪ z ̪ ɔ ̃]
* jędzę:
[j ɛ n ̪ d ̪ z ̪ ɛ]
Occurrences:
16,256
Examples:
* błoci:
[b w ɔ t ɕ i]
* boleć:
[b ɔ l ɛ t ɕ]
* troić:
[t ̪ r ɔ i t ɕ]
* idź:
[i t ɕ]
Occurrences:
4,469
Examples:
* idźmy:
[i d ʑ m ɨ]
* dziwą:
[d ʑ i v ɔ ̃]
* dziw:
[d ʑ i f]
* ludzi:
[l u d ʑ i]

Sibilant
Occurrences:
41,120
Examples:
* wons:
[v ɔ ̃ s ̪]
* small:
[s ̪ m a l]
* muras:
[m u r a s ̪]
* płuca:
[p w u t ̪ s ̪ a]
Occurrences:
22,303
Examples:
* nazad:
[n ̪ a z ̪ a t ̪]
* zaraz:
[z ̪ a r a s ̪]
* razom:
[r a z ̪ ɔ m]
* zatoń:
[z ̪ a t ̪ ɔ ɲ]
Occurrences:
21,501
Examples:
* poncz:
[p ɔ n ̪ t ʂ]
* krzew:
[k ʂ ɛ f]
* czerń:
[t ʂ ɛ r ɲ]
* część:
[t ʂ ɛ ̃ ɕ t ɕ]
Occurrences:
12,050
Examples:
* żeru:
[ʐ ɛ r u]
* liczb:
[ʎ i d ʐ b]
* smaży:
[s ̪ m a ʐ ɨ]
* wiążą:
[v ʲ ɔ ̃ ʐ ɔ ̃]
Occurrences:
13,344
Examples:
* śliz:
[ɕ ʎ i s ̪]
* gryźć:
[ɡ r ɨ ɕ t ɕ]
* tulić:
[t ̪ u ʎ i t ɕ]
* truś:
[t ̪ r u ɕ]
Occurrences:
2,009
Examples:
* zioła:
[ʑ ɔ w a]
* zimą:
[ʑ i m ɔ ̃]
* luźna:
[l u ʑ n ̪ a]
* dziś:
[d ʑ i ɕ]

Fricative
Occurrences:
13,914
Examples:
* swadą:
[s ̪ f a d ̪ ɔ ̃]
* swaci:
[s ̪ f a t ɕ i]
* flame:
[f l a m ɛ]
* wirów:
[v ʲ i r u f]
Occurrences:
3,132
Examples:
* figle:
[f ʲ i ɡ l ɛ]
* sufin:
[s ̪ u f ʲ i n ̪]
* zofio:
[z ̪ ɔ f ʲ ɔ]
* paofi:
[p a ɔ f ʲ i]
Occurrences:
34,940
Examples:
* wannę:
[v a n ̪ ɛ]
* sowy:
[s ̪ ɔ v ɨ]
* david:
[d ̪ a v ʲ i t ̪]
* wodzą:
[v ɔ d ̪ z ̪ ɔ ̃]
Occurrences:
12,904
Examples:
* zjawi:
[z ̪ j a v ʲ i]
* will:
[v ʲ i l]
* wikło:
[v ʲ i k w ɔ]
* zwowi:
[z ̪ v ɔ v ʲ i]
Occurrences:
708
Examples:
* hiena:
[ç j ɛ n ̪ a]
* hieny:
[ç j ɛ n ̪ ɨ]
* hip:
[ç i p]
* mehir:
[m ɛ ç i r]

Approximant
Occurrences:
28,966
Examples:
* kołom:
[k ɔ w ɔ m]
* płowy:
[p w ɔ v ɨ]
* bąkał:
[b ɔ ŋ k a w]
* kłamu:
[k w a m u]
Occurrences:
29,624
Examples:
* japa:
[j a p a]
* yunga:
[j u n ̪ ɡ a]
* wyjdź:
[v ɨ j t ɕ]
* kulej:
[k u l ɛ j]
Occurrences:
1,609
Examples:
* pińsk:
[p ʲ i j ̃ s ̪ k]
* tańsi:
[t ̪ a j ̃ ɕ i]
* mińsk:
[m ʲ i j ̃ s ̪ k]

Trill
Occurrences:
51,802
Examples:
* ubiór:
[u b ʲ u r]
* sarną:
[s ̪ a r n ̪ ɔ ̃]
* sary:
[s ̪ a r ɨ]
* berom:
[b ɛ r ɔ m]
Occurrences:
1,119
Examples:
* furię:
[f u r ʲ j ɛ]
* arimr:
[a r ʲ i m a a r]
* bric:
[b r ʲ i t ̪ s ̪]
* morin:
[m ɔ r ʲ i n ̪]

Lateral
Occurrences:
23,475
Examples:
* lewo:
[l ɛ v ɔ]
* mdlą:
[m d ̪ l ɔ ̃]
* alpin:
[a l p ʲ i n ̪]
* meblu:
[m ɛ b l u]
Occurrences:
9,589
Examples:
* pliva:
[p ʎ i v a]
* litwa:
[ʎ i t ̪ f a]
* glino:
[ɡ ʎ i n ̪ ɔ]
* elitę:
[ɛ ʎ i t ̪ ɛ]

Vowels#

Vowel symbols to the left of are unrounded and those to the right are rounded.

Oral Vowels#

Front

Near-Front

Central

Near-Back

Back

Close
Occurrences:
54,912
Examples:
* szui:
[ʂ u i]
* nanic:
[n ̪ a ɲ i t ̪ s ̪]
* pośli:
[p ɔ ɕ ʎ i]
* wbił:
[v b ʲ i w]
Occurrences:
57,047
Examples:
* gdyż:
[ɡ d ̪ ɨ ʂ]
* ludy:
[l u d ̪ ɨ]
* ewy:
[ɛ v ɨ]
* śluzy:
[ɕ l u z ̪ ɨ]
Occurrences:
41,247
Examples:
* kubić:
[k u b ʲ i t ɕ]
* stój:
[s ̪ t ̪ u j]
* umarł:
[u m a r w]
* różne:
[r u ʐ n ̪ ɛ]

Close-Mid

Open-Mid
Occurrences:
106,485
Examples:
* wyże:
[v ɨ ʐ ɛ]
* berom:
[b ɛ r ɔ m]
* rudek:
[r u d ̪ ɛ k]
* ranę:
[r a n ̪ ɛ]
Occurrences:
111,013
Examples:
* dorsz:
[d ̪ ɔ r ʂ]
* słabą:
[s ̪ w a b ɔ ̃]
* sopel:
[s ̪ ɔ p ɛ l]
* broda:
[b r ɔ d ̪ a]

Open
Occurrences:
131,778
Examples:
* tran:
[t ̪ r a n ̪]
* wais:
[v a i s ̪]
* oblak:
[ɔ b l a k]
* wpana:
[f p a n ̪ a]

Nasal Vowels#

Front

Near-Front

Central

Near-Back

Back

Close

Close-Mid

Open-Mid
Occurrences:
1,311
Examples:
* gałęź:
[ɡ a w ɛ ̃ ɕ]
* węchu:
[v ɛ ̃ x u]
* mężom:
[m ɛ ̃ ʐ ɔ m]
* mężów:
[m ɛ ̃ ʐ u f]
Occurrences:
9,073
Examples:
* żną:
[ʐ n ̪ ɔ ̃]
* dziką:
[d ʑ i k ɔ ̃]
* stają:
[s ̪ t ̪ a j ɔ ̃]
* cofną:
[t ̪ s ̪ ɔ f n ̪ ɔ ̃]

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