This chapter describes the linguistic resources included in the file
por.zip of the lang folder.
List of phonemes
Consonant Plosives
SPPAS
IPA
Description
Examples
p
p
voiceless bilabial
pacto
b
b
voiced bilabial
bato
t
t
voiceless alveolar
tacto
d
d
voiced alveolar
dato
k
k
voiceless velar
cacto
g
g
voiced velar
gato
Consonant Fricatives
SPPAS
IPA
Description
Examples
f
f
voiceless labiodental
facto
s
s
voiceless alveolar
saca
S
ʃ
voiceless postalveolar
chato
z
z
voiced alveolar
zaca
Z
ʒ
voiced postalveolar
jacto
v
v
voiced labiodental
vaca
x
x
voiceless velar
rabão
Consonant Nasals
SPPAS
IPA
Description
Examples
m
m
bilabial
mato
n
n
alveolar
nato
N
ŋ
voiced velar
hong-kong
J
ɲ
palatal
pinha
Consonant Liquids
SPPAS
IPA
Description
Examples
l
l
alveolar lateral
galo
L
ʎ
palatal lateral
galho
r
r
alveolar trill
pira
R
ʁ
voiced uvular
rato
Semivowels
SPPAS
IPA
Description
Examples
j
j
voiced palatal
yoga
w
w
voiced labiovelar
uísque
Vowels
SPPAS
IPA
Description
Examples
E
ɛ
open-mid front unrounded
ego, eira
a
a
open front unrounded
parto
O
ɔ
open-mid back rounded
pôde
i
i
close front unrounded
hidra
e
e
close-mid front unrounded
pega, elo
o
o
close-mid back rounded
bola
u
u
close back rounded
hotel
y
y
close front rounded
emile
I
ɪ
near-close near-front unrounded
dois
U
ʊ
near-close near-back rounded
ido
Nasal vowels
SPPAS
IPA
Examples
a~
ɑ̃
anis
u~
ũ
humberto, unha
Fillers
SPPAS
Description
laugh
laughter
noise
noises, unintelligible speech
dummy
un-transcribed speech
Lexicons
All Portuguese lexicons are (c) Laboratoire Parole et Langage,
Aix-en-Provence, France:
por.vocab contains a list of 414k different words;
por_num.repl allows to convert numbers to their written
form;
por.repl allows to convert symbols and abbreviations
into a text form.
All of them are distributed under the terms of the GNU General
Public License.
Pronunciation Dictionary
The Portuguese pronunciation dictionary was downloaded from the Ralf
catalog of dictionaries for the Simon ASR system at http://spirit.blau.in/simon/import-pls-dictionary/. It
was then converted (format and phoneset) and corrected by Brigitte
Bigi.
It is re-distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
License.
Acoustic Model
The acoustic model was NOT trained from data. Monophones of
other models were cut and pasted to create this one, mainly from the
Spanish and the French models. The Portuguese model is distributed under
the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public
License.
New Portuguese data is welcome! Because data implies
a better acoustic model then better alignments…