SAMPA: Present status

 

Tables B.1 to B.6 present the system agreed among the representatives of eight European countries engaged in European collaborative speech technology assessment research (SAM). It is currently being tested in the transcription and labelling of European multilingual databases.

 

IPA SAMPA ASCII Open- Front- Rounded- Comment

Close Back Unrounded

a a 97 open front unrounded

A 65 open back unrounded

æ { 123 near-open front unrounded English bad

6 54 near-open central unrounded German Butter

ipta Q 81 open back rounded

O 79 open-mid back rounded

e e 101 close-mid front unrounded

E 69 open-mid front unrounded

@ 64 mid central unrounded Schwa

3 51 mid central unrounded

i i 105 close front unrounded

I 73 near-close front unrounded lax

o o 111 close-mid back rounded

ø 2 50 close-mid front rounded

9 57 open-mid front rounded

& 38 open front rounded

u u 117 close back rounded

U U 85 near-close back rounded lax

} 125 close central rounded

V 86 open-mid back unrounded

y y 121 close front rounded

Y 89 near-close front rounded lax

 

IPA SAMPA ASCII Voicing Place Manner

b b 98 voiced bilabial plosive

c c 99 voiceless palatal plosive

ç C 67 voiceless palatal fricative

d d 100 voiced dental/alveol. plosive

D 68 voiced dental fricative

f f 102 voiceless labiodental fricative

g g 103 voiced velar plosive

G 71 voiced velar fricative

h h 104 voiceless glottal fricative

j j 106 palatal approximant

k k 107 voiceless velar plosive

l l 108 dental/alveol. lateral approxim.

L 76 palatal lateral approxim.

m m 109 bilabial nasal

n n 110 dental/alveol. nasal

J 74 palatal nasal

N 78 velar nasal

p p 112 voiceless bilabial plosive

r r 114 alveolar trill

, R 82 uvular trill/fricative

s s 115 voiceless alveolar fricative

S 83 voiceless postalveolar fricative

t t 116 voiceless dental/alveol. plosive

T 84 voiceless dental fricative

v v 118 voiced labiodental fricative

w w 119 labial-velar approximant

x x 120 voiceless velar fricative

H 72 labial-palat. approximant

z z 122 voiced alveolar fricative

Z 90 voiced postalveolar fricative

? 63 stød, glottal stop

 

IPA SAMPA ASCII Comment

e~ 69,126 Nasalised vowel

aI 97,73 Diphthong

tS 116,83 Affricate

rd 114,100 Retroflex consonant

u0 117,48 Mid-close rounded central vowel in Swedish

n =n 61,110 Syllabic /n/

E/ 69,47 Indeterminacy (for /e/ - /E/ in French)

 

Table B.4: Boundary and prosodic features 

IPA	SAMPA	ASCII	Comment
	:	58	Length mark
papa	"papa	34	Primary stress (also in Accent I words in Norwegian and Swedish)
papa	""papa	34,34	Accent II words in Norwegian and Swedish
papa	%papa	37	Secondary stress
¯ papa	-papa	45	Level tone (if followed by a tone group boundary)
papa	'papa	39	Rising tone
papa	`papa	96	Falling tone
papa	`'papa	96,39	Fall-rise
papa	'`papa	39,96	Rise-fall
	$	36	Syllable boundary
	|	124	Tone group boundary
	-	45	Separator

 

SAMPA ASCII Comment

* 42 Conjunctor

... 46,46,46 Silent pause

92 Phonetic case shift (e.g. *F might be used to signal a shift into French and would terminate the shift.

 

SAMPA ASCII Comment

§ 21 Phonological phrase

# 35 Word boundary

## 35,35 Absence of liaison

+ 43 Morpheme boundary