SAMTRA (SAM TRanscription Analysis)

Version:

1.0, June l991

Hardware / OS requirements:

Standard SESAM workstation

Description:

• The software package SAMTRA normalises and verifies transcriptions in SAMPA notation and computes phoneme and diphoneme distribution statistics. The data flow between the three modules of SAMTRA is via the intermediate files SAMTRA.NOR and SAMTRA.STA (which are accessible for further developments). The modules perform the following actions:
  1. Module 1: Transcription verification
  2. Module 2: Computation of phoneme and diphoneme distribution
  3. Module 3: Flexible printing of statistics

• Procedure:
  1. SAMTRA reads two input files, a SAMPA symbol file and a SAMPA transcription file, and tries to write a normalised transcription to the file SAMPTA.NOR.
  2. If there are errors in the transcription file, SAMTRA prints them out on the screen and to the file SAMTRA.NOR.
  3. If the normalisation procedure succeeds, SAMTRA reads the normalised transcription file SAMTRA.NOR and computes the phoneme and diphoneme distributions, and writes them to SAMTRA.STA.

• The text output of SAMTRA is dependent on the file SAMTRA.SET (which overrides the default printout constants) and command line switches.

Developing lab:

Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies
Universität Bielefeld
P 100131
D-33501 Bielefeld

Tel: (49) 521 106 3510

Fax: (49) 521 106 6008

Email: gibbon@asl.uni-bielefeld.de

Contact:

Dafydd Gibbon