SAMPROSA

English Etymology From SAM + PROS + A, where PROS stands for Prosodic Transcription, and SAM and A were added for similarity to SAMPA. Proper noun en proper noun ASCII-based representation of the International Phonetic Alphabet that includes symbols for toneage, length, stress, and pause. en 2002 B.S. Manjunath; Philippe Salembier; Thomas Sikora Introduction to MPEG-7: Multimedia Content Description Interface 1 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CmSPGXF1yB4C&pg=PA309&dq=%2BSAMPROSA&hl=en&ei=Aa2STL-EG4_m4Aaqht3PBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CGAQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%2BSAMPROSA&f=false 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. Further reading SAMPROSA Symbol Set (draft) en abbreviations