SAMPROSA

S1A1M3P3R1O1S1A1

proper noun

ASCII-based representation of the International Phonetic Alphabet that includes symbols for toneage, length, stress, and pause.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. ASCII-based representation of the International Phonetic Alphabet that includes symbols for toneage, length, stress, and pause.

    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.

    2002, B.S. Manjunath, Philippe Salembier, Thomas Sikora, Introduction to MPEG-7: Multimedia Content Description Interface, volume 1, page 309

Origin

From SAM + PROS + A, where PROS stands for Prosodic Transcription, and SAM and A were added for similarity to SAMPA.

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APA

SAMPROSA. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/SAMPROSA

MLA

“SAMPROSA.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/SAMPROSA. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “SAMPROSA,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/SAMPROSA.

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