Database

MFA uses a SQLite database to cache information during training/alignment runs. An issue with training larger corpora was running into memory bottlenecks as all the information in the corpus was stored in memory, and fMLLR estimations in later stages would crash. Additionally, there was always a trade off between storing results for use in other applications like Anchor Annotator or providing diagnostic information to users, and ensuring that the core MFA workflows were as memory/time efficient as possible. Offloading to a database frees up some memory, and makes some computations more efficient, and should be optimized enough to not slow down regular processing.

Dictionary(**kwargs)	Database class for storing information about a pronunciation dictionary
Dialect(**kwargs)	Database class for storing information about a dialect
Word(**kwargs)	Database class for storing words, their integer IDs, and pronunciation information
Pronunciation(**kwargs)	Database class for storing information about a pronunciation
Phone(**kwargs)	Database class for storing phones and their integer IDs
Grapheme(**kwargs)	Database class for storing phones and their integer IDs
File(**kwargs)	Database class for storing information about files in the corpus
TextFile(**kwargs)	Database class for storing information about transcription files
SoundFile(**kwargs)	Database class for storing information about sound files
Speaker(**kwargs)	Database class for storing information about speakers
Utterance(**kwargs)	Database class for storing information about utterances
WordInterval(**kwargs)	Database class for storing information about aligned word intervals
PhoneInterval(**kwargs)	Database class for storing information about aligned phone intervals
CorpusWorkflow(**kwargs)	Database class for storing information about a particular workflow (alignment, transcription, etc)
PhonologicalRule(**kwargs)	Database class for storing information about a phonological rule
RuleApplication(**kwargs)	Database class for mapping rules to generated pronunciations
Job(**kwargs)	Database class for storing information about multiprocessing jobs
M2MSymbol(**kwargs)	Database class for storing information many to many G2P training information
M2M2Job(**kwargs)	Mapping class between M2MSymbol and Job
Word2Job(**kwargs)	Mapping class between Word and Job