is Forced Alignment available on prebuilt Docker images? about nemo

[erastorgueva-nv]

Hi! If you want use NeMo, you can either use the PyTorch container and install NeMo on it, or use a NeMo speech container. There are instructions for both in the README, e.g. here. AFAIK, neither type of container contains any of the tools from this directory. However, all of those tools are essentially relatively lightweight Python scripts that use NeMo (and maybe some other dependencies that are mentioned in their requirements files).

So if I were you, I would set up one of the Docker containers and make sure NeMo is installed, then git clone the NeMo repository so that you have access to the NFA scripts here: https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo/tree/main/tools/nemo_forced_aligner.

Then you should be able to use NFA inside the container by calling the <path to your NeMo location>/tools/nemo_forced_aligner/align.py script.