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From: cb@fantod.xis.xerox.com (Christopher Bader)
Subject: Re: Phonetic Alphabets
Message-ID: <1993Feb26.183755.14911@spectrum.xerox.com>
Keywords: Phonetics
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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 18:37:55 GMT
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In article <sandra.730726768@argon> sandra@argon (Sandra Swagten) writes:
>Hi,
>
>At SPEX we are currently trying to build up an speech archive.  In this
>archive we also want to store transcriptions.  The problem with
>transcriptions is that people deliver it in different alphabets.
>We have the following questions:
>    - Which alphabet would you suggest we should use in this archive?
>      IPA seems to be the most extensive alphabet.
>    - Is there a (standard) computer representation available for IPA?
>    - Are there any  mapping tables, methods, programmes to convert the
>      different alphabets (COST-CPA, SAMPA, ...) into IPA?
>Any help would be appreciated! Thanks in advance,
>
>Greetings, Sandra Swagten.
>-- 
>|        Sandra Swagten                          E-mail: sandra@spex.nl      |
>|        Speech Processing EXpertise centre      phone : +31 70 3326282      |
>|        P.O.Box 421                                                         |
>|        2260 AK  Leidschendam                   The Netherlands             |

You want to be sure you use the *new* IPA as defined by the Kiel convention (1988?).

Linguist's Software has a Macintosh (and PC?) font called IPA-Kiel.  Of course,
the font defines a character set as well.

						-- Christopher Bader

