Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

samprosa

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sam-prosa
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

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

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

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

Questions

What does samprosa mean?: ASCII-based representation of the International Phonetic Alphabet that includes symbols for toneage, length, stress, and pause.
Where does samprosa come from?: From SAM + PROS + A, where PROS stands for Prosodic Transcription, and SAM and A were added for similarity to SAMPA.

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