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SAMPA

The Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet (SAMPA) is a computer-readable phonetic script using 7-bit printable ASCII characters, based on the International Phonetic AlphabetInternational Phonetic Alphabet

The International Phonetic Alphabet is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists....
(IPA).

It was originally developed in the late 1980s for six European languages by the EECEuropean Economic Community

The European Economic Community was an international organisation created in 1957 to bring about economic integration betwe...
ESPRITESPRIT

ESPRIT is an acronym for the European Strategic Program on Research in Information Technology of the European Union, r...
information technology research and development program. As many symbols as possible have been taken over from the IPA; where this is not possible, other signs that are available are used, e.g. [@] for schwaSchwa Overview

In linguistics, specifically phonetics and phonology, schwa can mean:...
(IPA ), [2] for the vowel sound found in French deux (IPA ), and [9] for the vowel sound found in French neuf (IPA ).

Today, officially, SAMPA has been developed for all the sounds of the following languages:

ArabicArabic language Summary

The Arabic language , or simply Arabic , is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language fami...
BulgarianBulgarian language

Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Southern branch of the Slavic languages....
Cantonese
CzechCzech language

Czech is one of the West Slavic languages, along with Slovak, Polish, Pomeranian , and Lusatian Sorbian....
DanishDanish language

Danish is one of the North Germanic languages , a sub-group of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages....
DutchDutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic language spoken by around 22 million people, mainly in the Netherlands and Belgium . ...
EnglishEnglish language

English is a widely distributed language that originated in England but is now the primary language in numerous countries....
EstonianEstonian language

Estonian is the official language of Estonia, spoken by about 1.1 million people in Estonia and by some ten thousands in va...
FrenchFrench language

French is the third-largest of the Romance languages in terms of number of native speakers, after Spanish and Portuguese, b...

GermanGerman language

German is a West Germanic language....

GreekGreek language Summary

Greek has a documented history of 3,500 years, the longest of any single language within the Indo-European family....

HebrewHebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Jew...

HungarianHungarian language

Hungarian is a Finno-Ugric language, unrelated to the other languages of Central Europe....

ItalianItalian language

Italian is a Romance language spoken by about 70 million people, primarily in Italy....

NorwegianNorwegian language

Norwegian is a Germanic language spoken in Norway....

PolishPolish language

Polish is the official language of Poland....

PortuguesePortuguese language

Portuguese is an Iberian Romance language, of the Indo-European family....

RomanianRomanian language

Romanian is the fifth of the Romance languages in terms of number of speakers....

RussianRussian language

Russian is the most widely spoken language of Eurasia and the most widespread of the Slavic languages....

ScotsScots language

Scots refers to the Anglic varieties spoken in parts of Scotland....

Serbo-Croatian

SlovakSlovak language Overview

Slovak is an Indo-European language belonging to the West Slavic languages ....

SpanishSpanish language

Spanish or Castilian is an Iberian Romance language....

SwedishSwedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland, especially along the coast an...

ThaiThai language

The Thai language , is the national and official language of Thailand and the mother tongue of the Thai people, Thailand's d...

TurkishTurkish language

Turkish is a Turkic language spoken natively by the Turkish people in Turkey, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedon...

The characters ["s Features of SAMPA SAMPA was developed in the late 1980s in the European Commission funded 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 IPAInternational Phonetic Alphabet The International Phonetic Alphabet is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists.... . 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 IPAInternational Phonetic Alphabet The International Phonetic Alphabet is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists.... encoding technique universally applicable, X-SAMPAX-SAMPA The Extended SAM Phonetic Alphabet is a variant of SAMPA developed in 1995 by John C.... was created, which provides one single table without language-specific differences. SAMPA was devised as a hackHack (technology slang) Hack is a term in the slang of the technology culture which has come into existence over the past few decades.... to work around the inability of text encodings to represent IPA symbols. Consequently, as UnicodeUnicode Unicode is an industry standard designed to allow text and symbols from all of the writing systems of the world to be consis... support for IPA symbols becomes more widespread, the necessity for a separate, computer-readable system for representing the IPA in ASCII decreases. However, text input relies on specific keyboard encodings or input devices. For this reason, SAMPA and X-SAMPA are still widely used in computational phonetics and in speech technology. See also A concise version of SAMPA chart for EnglishSAMPA chart for English This is a concise version of SAMPA for English sounds.... sounds. A more complete SAMPA chartSAMPA chart Summary SAMPA charts of consonants and vowels... of the sounds found in most of the European languages. KirshenbaumKirshenbaum Kirshenbaum, sometimes called ASCII-IPA, is a system used to represent the International Phonetic Alphabet in ASCII.... , sometimes called ASCII-IPA is another ASCIIASCII ASCII , generally pronounced , is a character encoding based on the English alphabet.... phonetic alphabet. IPA, International Phonetic AlphabetInternational Phonetic Alphabet The International Phonetic Alphabet is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists.... X-SAMPAX-SAMPA The Extended SAM Phonetic Alphabet is a variant of SAMPA developed in 1995 by John C.... , a language-independent notation similar to SAMPA, but covering the entire IPA repertoire. CXSConlang XSAMPA CXS is an unofficial extension of the Extended Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet that is used by members of the ... , an unofficial, extended version of X-SAMPA used for language constructionConstructed language An artificial or constructed language is a language the phonology, grammar and/or vocabulary of which have been spec... External links from (German) written text to SAMPA and IPA (Ajax-application)