English

Acronym

SAMPROSA

1. ASCII-based representation of the International Phonetic Alphabet that includes symbols for toneage, length, stress, and pause.
   • 2002: B.S. Manjunath, Philippe Salembier, and Thomas Sikora, Introduction to MPEG-7: Multimedia Content Description Interface, volume 1, page 309

     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.

SAMPROSA Symbol Set (draft)