% This table lists the phonemic symbols recognized by MAUS in the input for language fra-FR. Columns are: % MAUS: symbol as recognized by MAUS, SAMPA: original (X-)SAMPA symbol, IPA: corresponding IPA symbol, PHONETICS: phonetic description, % EXAMPLES: example words (and/or Language Name), ISO636-3: language code ('xxx' = used in multiple languages), % MANNER: phonetic manner, PLACE: place of articulation [optional: acoustic model MAUS uses for this symbol; only in Language Independent Mode]. % ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAUS SAMPA IPA PHONETICS EXAMPLES ISO639-3 MANNER PLACE (..) human noise, garbage xxx noise noise (.) noise, non-human xxx noise noise (...) silence interval (optional) xxx silence silence

(...) silence interval (non-optional) xxx silence silence o~ o~ õ nasalized back half closed rounded vowel bon fra vowel midback e~ e~ ẽ nasalized front half closed unrounded vowel vin fra vowel midfront a~ a~ ã nasalized central open vowel vent fra vowel lowfront 9~ 9~ ɶ̃ nasalized front half open rounded vowel brun,neuv fra vowel midfront Z Z ʒ voiced postalveolar fricative (French) jour, (English) pleasure xxx fricative post-alveolar z z z voiced alveolar fricative (English) zoo, (German) See xxx fricative alveolar y y y front closed rounded vowel (French) du, (German) Tür xxx vowel highfront w w w labial-velar approximant (English) we, (French) oui xxx approximant labio-velar v v v voiced labiodental fricative (English) voice, (German) Welt xxx fricative labio-dental u u u back closed rounded vowel (English) soon, (Spanish) tú, (French) goût, (German) Hut, Mutter, (Italian) azzurro,tutto xxx vowel highback T T θ voiceless dental fricative (English) thing, (Castilian Spanish) caza xxx fricative dental t t t voiceless alveolar plosive (English) two, (Spanish) toma xxx plosive alveolar S S ʃ voiceless postalveolar fricative (English) she, (French) chemin xxx fricative post-alveolar s s s voiceless alveolar fricative (English) see, (Spanish) sí xxx fricative alveolar R R ʀ uvular trill (German) Reich xxx trill uvular p p p voiceless bilabial plosive (English) pen xxx plosive bilabial O O ɔ back half open rounded vowel British (English) law, caught, (Italian) cosa, (Catalan) dona, (Spanish) ojo, (German) Wort xxx vowel midback o o o back half closed rounded vowel US (English) sore, Scottish English boat, (Spanish) yo, (French) beau, (German) Sohle, (Italian) dove, (Catalan) ona xxx vowel midback N N ŋ velar nasal (English) ring, (Italian) bianco, (Tagalog) ngayón xxx nasal velar n n n alveolar nasal (English), (Spanish) and (Italian) no xxx nasal alveolar m m m bilabial nasal (English) man xxx nasal bilabial l l l alveolar lateral approximant (English) left, (Spanish) largo xxx lateral-approximant alveolar k k k voiceless velar plosive (English) skill xxx plosive velar J J ɲ palatal nasal (Spanish) año, (French) oignon xxx nasal palatal j j j palatal approximant (English) yes, (French) yeux xxx approximant palatal i i i front closed unrounded vowel (English) see, (Spanish) sí, (French) vite, (German) mi.e.ten, (Italian) visto xxx vowel highfront H H ɥ labial-palatal approximant (French) huit xxx approximant labio-palatal g g ɡ voiced velar plosive (English) go xxx plosive velar f f f voiceless labiodental fricative (English) fool, (Spanish) and (Italian) falso xxx fricative labio-dental E E ɛ front half open unrounded vowel (English) bed, (French) même, (German) Herr, Männer, (Italian) ferro, (Catalan) mes, (Spanish) perro xxx vowel midfront e e e front half closed unrounded vowel US (English) bear, (Spanish) él, (French) année, (German) mehr, (Italian) rete, (Catalan) més xxx vowel midfront D D ð voiced dental fricative (English) this xxx fricative dental d d d voiced alveolar plosive (English) do, (Italian) cade xxx plosive alveolar b b b voiced bilabial plosive (English) but xxx plosive bilabial A A ɑ back open unrounded vowel (English) arm, US English law, standard (French) âme xxx vowel lowback a a a central open vowel (Spanish) da, barra, (French) bateau,lac, (German) Haar, (Italian) pazzo xxx vowel lowfront 9 9 œ front half open rounded vowel (French) neuf (hence '9'), (German) Hölle xxx vowel midfront 2 2 ø front half closed rounded vowel (French) deux (hence '2'), (German) Höhle xxx vowel midfront # # (...) inter-word silence (optional) xxx silence silence @ @ ə central neutral unrounded vowel (English) about, winner,(German) bitte xxx vowel midcentral ? ? ʔ glottal stop (German) Verein, (Danish) stød xxx plosive glottal > > (...) recording trailing silence (optional) xxx silence silence < < (...) recording initial silence (optional) xxx silence silence % ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- % % MAUS Parameter Set French fra-FR (hat-HT) % % See also the file USAGE in the top directory of the package. % % This is the French language parameter set of MAUS. HMMs were trained to the % manually segmented Rhapsody Corpus (spontaneous speech, approx. 100.000 phones). % % Corpus Rhapsodie Le Corpus Rhapsodie de l'ANR Rhapsodie 07 CORP 030 01' % http://www.projet-rhapsodie.fr/ % % To cite this corpus use: % Lacheret A., Kahane S., Pietrandrea P. (2014 ed.), Rhapsodie: a Prosodic and % Syntactic Treebank for Spoken French, col Studies in Corpus Linguistics, % Amsterdam, Benjamins. % % From the corpus README: % The Rhapsodie treebank is made up of 57 samples of spoken French (5 % minutes long on average, amounting to 3 hours of speech and a 33 000 word % corpus) endowed with an orthographical and phoneme-aligned transcription . % % The corpus represents different genres (private and public % speech; monologues and dialogues; face-to-face interviews and broadcasts; % more or less interactive discourse; descriptive, argumentative and % procedural samples, variations in planning type). % % The acoustic model of maus was trained to the complete corpus with the exception % of 5 files where the annotation was not valid. % Rhapsody4MAUS_C.mmf : 40 HMM trained on Rhapsody + 3 cloned HMM /? T D/ % the inventar covers the official French SAM-PA set % % % The pronunciation model (MAUS ruleset) was trained to the same data set; % resulting rules were inspected manually for plausability and rules that are % a direct consequence of wrong segmentations were removed. % Rhapsody4MAUS_C_pruning10.rul : pruning set to 10 (a rule instant must be % observed at least 10 times in the corpus, default) % Rhapsody4MAUS_C_pruning20.rul : pruning set to 20 (a rule instant must be % observed at least 20 times in the corpus) % To use an alternative rule set than the default use the maus option RULESET. % % This parameter set was created with the kind help of Nina Poerner, Germany. % % ------------------------------------------------------------------------- %