Re: representing back unrounded vowels in X-Sampa
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 17, 2004, 1:54 |
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On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 02:07:59AM +0100, Trebor Jung wrote:
> Unfortunately, that doesn't help much. Because I'm visually impaired, I use a
> speech program, which hasn't got access to graphical stuff.
Yeah, I can't imagine what a speech program could do with graphics.
We don't have AI to the point where a computer can give a nice succinct
description of an image. I'm guessing it doesn't deal with funky
Unicode symbols, either.
> Is there a text-based chart of all the symbols in all the systems
> (Kirshenbaum, original IPA, X-Sampa etc.) plus their pronunciations for
> people just learning the systems?
The only audio guide to the IPA of which I'm aware is the set of
recordings available for download at the official IPA Handbook website.
http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/handbook.htm. There's a whole
set of WAV files indexed by the English names of the symbols that you
can download - but you'd better have broadband. It's a 93MB ZIP file.
Once you have that, you can put it together with the text chart you've already
found and have a guide to pronouncing any X-SAMPA or CXS symbol you
run into on the list.
-Mark
-Mark