Transcription (Sept 18-20) (23 was DARLA)

Question 1

What is Elan? What is it good for?

Answer 1

• very good for video data
• is another powerful and popular software for transcribing audio data
• allows multiple tiers

Question 2

What are 3 symbol systems for transcription?

Answer 2

• IPA
• SAMPA
• ARPAbet

Question 3

What does SAMPA stand for?

Answer 3

speech assessment methods phonetic alphabet

Question 4

Why SAMPA and what are its key features?

Answer 4

Why?
- Computers and earlier software systems had limited ability to handle IPA symbols
- SAMPA provided a work around using basic text, ensuring compatibility across different systems.

Key Features:
- Uses standard ASCII characters to represent phonetic symbols
- Designed to simplify IPA symbols for easy use in computational systems.
- widely used in computational linguistics and speech synthesis applications.

Question 5

What does ARPAbet stand for?

Answer 5

advanced research projects agency for speech processing

Question 6

How does ARPAbet compare to SAMPA

Answer 6

Like SAMPA, it uses ASCII characters to represent phonemes, but specifically it designed for use in automatic speech recognition and speech synthesis.

Question 7

Why APRAbet? what are some key features?

Answer 7

Why?
-simplifies the representation of English phonemes for use in speech tech
- it is easy to integrate into speech synthesis and recognition software without needing special characters.

Key features:
- Uses a distinct set of ASCII symbols for each phoneme based on American English.
- Each phoneme is represented by a two- or three-letter code.)
- widely used in text-to-speech systems