This chapter describes the linguistic resources included in the file
nan.zip of the lang folder.
List of phonemes
Consonant Plosives
SPPAS
IPA
Description
b
b
voiced bilabial
d
d
voiced alveolar
p
p
voiceless bilabial
p_h
pʰ
voiceless bilabial aspirated
t
t
voiceless alveolar
t_h
tʰ
voiceless alveolar aspirated
k
k
voiceless velar
k_h
kʰ
voiceless velar aspirated
g
g
voiced velar
Consonant Fricatives
SPPAS
IPA
Description
f
f
voiceless labiodental
s
s
voiceless alveolar
S
ʃ
voiceless postalveolar
x
x
voiceless velar
ss
v
v
voiced labiodental
z
z
voiced alveolar
h
h
voiceless glottal
Consonant Nasals
SPPAS
IPA
Description
m
m
bilabial
n
n
alveolar
N
ŋ
voiced velar
Consonant Liquids
SPPAS
IPA
Description
l
l
alveolar lateral
Semivowels
SPPAS
IPA
Description
w
w
voiced labiovelar
Vowels
SPPAS
IPA
Description
a
a
open front unrounded
o
o
close-mid back rounded
O
ɔ
open-mid back rounded
e
e
close-mid front unrounded
i
i
close front unrounded
u
u
close back rounded
y
y
close front rounded
@
ə
schwa
Nasal vowels
SPPAS
IPA
a~
ɑ̃
e~
ẽ
o~
õ
O~
ɔ̃
u~
ũ
i~
ĩ
Affricates
SPPAS
IPA
Description
ts
t͡s
voiceless alveolar
ts_h
t͡sʰ
voiceless alveolar aspirated
dz
d͡z
voiced alveolar
Fillers
SPPAS
Description
laugh
laughter
noise
noises, unintelligible speech
dummy
un-transcribed speech
Lexicons
The lexicon is (c) Laboratoire Parole et Langage,
Aix-en-Provence, France: nan.vocab contains a list of
1000 different words; it is distributed under the terms of the GNU
General Public License.
Pronunciation Dictionary
The pronunciation dictionary was constructed from the most frequent
observed pronunciations of the corpus described below.
It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
License.
Acoustic Model
It is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public
License.
The acoustic model was trained from a corpus of spontaneous speech.
We address special thanks to Sheng-Fu Wang for giving us access to his
corpus.
S-F Wang, J. Fon (2013). A Taiwan Southern Min
spontaneous speech corpus for discourse prosody, Proceedings of
Tools and Resources for the Analysis of Speech Prosody, Aix-en-Provence,
France, Eds B. Bigi and D. Hirst, ISBN: 978-2-7466-6443-2,
pp. 20-23.