Blog Occasional notes on speech models, training infrastructure, and whatever else I’ve been hacking on. We benchmarked 4 neural forced aligners across multiple languages. Here's what we found. Notes from a benchmark comparing four neural forced aligners — Seamless, WhisperX, Qwen3-ForcedAligner, and a commercial cloud ASR — on FLEURS across 9 languages, 4 language families, and 3 writing systems. April 2026