SAMPA
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The Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA) is a computer-readable phonetic script using 7-bit printable
deux 'two' (IPA [ø]), and [9] for the vowel sound found in French neuf 'nine' (IPA [œ]).
The characters ["s{mp@] represent the pronunciation of the name SAMPA in English, with the initial symbol ["] indicating primary stress (in IPA, /ˈsæmpə/). Like IPA, SAMPA is usually enclosed in square brackets or slashes, which are not part of the alphabet proper and merely signify that it is phonetic as opposed to regular text.
Languages
Today, officially, SAMPA has been developed for all the sounds of the following languages:
Features
SAMPA was developed in the late 1980s in the
ESPRIT
project 2589 "Speech Assessment Methods" (SAM)—hence "SAM Phonetic Alphabet"—in order to facilitate email data exchange and computational processing of transcriptions in phonetics and speech technology.
SAMPA is a partial
encoding of the IPA. The first version of SAMPA was the union of the sets of phoneme codes for Danish, Dutch, English, French, German and Italian; later versions extended SAMPA to cover other European languages. Since SAMPA is based on phoneme inventories, each SAMPA table is valid only in the language it was created for. In order to make this IPA encoding technique universally applicable, X-SAMPA
was created, which provides one single table without language-specific differences.
SAMPA was devised as a
better source needed
] in computational phonetics and in speech technology.
See also
- Comparison of ASCII encodings of the International Phonetic Alphabet
- SAMPA chart
- SAMPA chart for English, a concise version
- X-SAMPA, a language-independent notation similar to SAMPA, but covering the entire IPA repertoire
- BABEL Speech Corpus
References
- ^ "Project Euphonia's Personalized Speech Recognition for Non-Standard Speech". Google AI Blog. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
- Ranchhod, Elisabeth & J. Mamede, Nuno (2002). Advances in Natural Language Processing: Third International Conference, PorTAL 2002, Faro, Portugal, June 23–26, 2002. Proceedings (ISBN 3-540-43829-7.
- L. DeMiller, Anna & Rettig, James (2000). Linguistics: A Guide to the Reference Literature (2nd ed.). Libraries Unlimited. ISBN 1-56308-619-0.
- Lamberts, Koen & Goldstone, Rob (2004). Handbook of Cognition. Sage Publications Ltd. ISBN 0-7619-7277-3.
External links
Look up SAMPA in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- SAMPA computer readable phonetic alphabet
- Phonemic notation of English in SAMPA
- SAMPA for Scots Archived 2003-08-11 at the Wayback Machine
- Converter from (German) written text to SAMPA and IPA (Ajax-application)
- IPA-SAMPA Converter and IPA-SAMPA chart
