mahesh27/fleurs-textgrids

This dataset provides TextGrids with tiers phones in IPA and words in usual script corresponding to field word_segmented in mahesh27/fleurs-ipa.

Alignments are generated using mahesh27/mms-300m-ipa-fleurs along with post silence trimming as per the paper.

Usage

Download textgrids.zip and extract such that the directory structure looks like textgrids/en_us/123456789.TextGrid. For metadata, load as usual:

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("mahesh27/fleurs-textgrids")

Citation

@article{akavarapu2026phoneme,
      title={Phoneme- and Word-Level Metrics Using Self-Supervised Speech Representations for Forced Alignment Evaluation}, 
      author={V.S.D.S.Mahesh Akavarapu and Michael Daniel and Gerhard Jäger},
      year={2026},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.28508},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28508}, 
}