Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet
SAMPA or SAM -PA [ sæmpə ] (abbreviation for Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet [ spi ː tʃ ˌ əsɛsmənt mɛθədz fənɛtɪk ælfəbɛt ] ) is the short name for an ASCII-based phonetic alphabet.
SAMPA was originally 1987-1989 SAM ( Speech Assessment Methods ) developed within the European ESPRIT project 1541, so phonemic transcriptions of the official languages of the then European Community one (1989 was the Danish, English, French, German, Italian and Dutch) electronically could transmit and process. Later, Norwegian and Swedish were added (1992 ) as well as Greek, Portuguese and Spanish ( 1993). SAMPA has the British phonetician John C. Wells to the Father, acting in consultation with leading phoneticians and engineers in the participating countries. In phonetics, and in the development of language technology systems SAMPA has since become widespread.
SAMPA is not an independent phonetic alphabet, but encodes only a subset of the IPA machine readable and friendly keyboard in ASCII. This subset includes the phoneme of the above languages as far as they are needed in encyclopedias, but not how IPA symbols for further debate details. These maps SAMPA the relevant symbols of the IPA due 7 - bit ASCII codes. Attention was paid to similarities to IPA symbols, so except machinery and human texts in SAMPA would easily be able to read. The SAMPA Transkribierungscodes are standardized internationally for the languages listed above.
Unlike SAMPA to which you agreed to it to use scientific and technological development in phonetics and speech technology, the Unicode encoding of the IPA is primarily aimed at the reproduction in print products.
The IPA Unicode encoding is currently difficult to use in science and language technology for various reasons. Firstly, the IPA symbols are scattered over several Unicode tables, on the other hand, there is a lack of ergonomically sensible Accessibility.
In order to fully encode the IPA, developed Wells 1995 X - SAMPA, eXtended SAMPA.
Example
Text: You have stolen my breath away, and I want him back.
SAMPA: [ 'you ' have 'mi: 6' en: n 'a: t @ mg @ -' RaUpt IC ' VIL ' i: n ' vi: - d6 ' ha: ' Sup? '? - b @ n] or [ D_dU: h'AsT_t m-? ' I6 = D_d @ n? "a- T_t @ m: @ G_G -r" (au) B_bT_t ]