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SAMPROSA

SAMPROSA proper noun: ASCII-based representation of the International Phonetic Alphabet that includes symbols for toneage, length, stress, and pause.

Proper noun

SAMPROSA

  1. ASCII-based representation of the International Phonetic Alphabet that includes symbols for toneage, length, stress, and pause.
    • Unfortunately, silence is not considered a phone, and within ASR no standard exists for its representation. To account for silences within a phone decoding we have chosen to employ the SAMPROSA (Speech Assessment Methods Prosodic Approach) suggestion of ‘. . .’ to represent silence.2002, B.S. Manjunath, Philippe Salembier, Thomas Sikora, Introduction to MPEG-7: Multimedia Content Description Interface, volume 1, page 309

Origin of SAMPROSA

From SAM + PROS + A, where PROS stands for Prosodic Transcription, and SAM and A were added for similarity to SAMPA.

Questions about SAMPROSA

What does SAMPROSA mean?
SAMPROSA means ASCII-based representation of the International Phonetic Alphabet that includes symbols for toneage, length, stress, and pause.
What part of speech is SAMPROSA?
SAMPROSA is a proper noun.

Words near SAMPROSA in the dictionary

  1. sampognas
  2. Sampongan
  3. sampot
  4. sampradaya
  5. sampradayas
  6. SAMPROSA
  7. samps
  8. Sampsel
  9. Sampsell
  10. Sampsells
  11. Sampsels

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