Getting started#
Important
Montreal Forced Aligner is a command line utility. For more information on how to get to the command line and use MFA, see Getting to the command line.
Installation#
Installing with conda
MFA can be easily installed once conda is available via Miniforge or another source:
conda config --add channels conda-forge
conda create -n aligner montreal-forced-aligner -y
conda activate aligner
mfa --help
In-depth instructions
Using Docker? Want to install via source? Want a step-by-step instructions for installing MFA?
First steps
Once MFA is installed, try it out aligning a demo corpus in English, Japanese, or Mandarin and make sure everything’s working and what the inputs/outputs of MFA are