HYPER VOCABULARY AND SPEECH SOUND DATAR BASE

超级词汇和语音数据库

基本信息

批准号：
06401012
负责人：
R. Kagaya
金额：
$ 12.48万
依托单位：
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
财政年份：
1995
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
1995 至 1997
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

It is obvious that provision of both letters of a word (written data) and its speech sound (sound data) makers a learner easier to master the word. However, there is little speech sound data of minor languages in Asia and Africa. Even the written data are not found in many of those languages. Taking this into consideration, we aimed to make a vocabulary of speech sounds (called Hyper Vocabulary) with use of personal computers in order to learn pronunciation of a language. Concretely, a learner can hear the speech sound of a wold, clicking letters of worg on the computer (this computer manipulation should be simple). The software of controlling data of each language was improved any time out of necessity. The object languages are minor languages of Asia and Africa, which are not commercially dealt with. A speaker of each language is of course a native speaker.Languages dealt so far are 19 languages. However not all of them are complete in the form of Hyper vocabulary, because of the lack in quality and quantity of personal computers, an investigator's move, etc. For 12 languages, speech vocabul ar ies are completed and almost completed (see references). As for the rest seven languages, the written data was already input and the speech sound data are in the process of being input. They are ready to use in near future. The Hyper vocabulary of each language consists of about 2000 words, but some languages like the Tibetan have more than 3000 words.Due to characteristics of this project, the result is published in the form of MO disk and CD rather than in written articles. The present Hyper vocabulary is made for Machintosh, but we are developing the way to appiy the dictionary for any personal computer.These studies and works will be continued even after March 1998 when the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of Monbusho supporting this project comes to an end. Addition and deletion of words will be carried out any time.

显然，提供单词的字母（书面数据）及其语音（声音数据）使得学习者更容易掌握该单词。然而，亚洲和非洲小语种的语音数据却很少。其中许多语言甚至都找不到书面数据。考虑到这一点，我们的目标是使用个人电脑制作语音词汇表（称为超级词汇表），以便学习语言的发音。具体来说，学习者可以听到wold的语音，在电脑上点击worg字母（这个电脑操作应该很简单）。每种语言的数据控制软件都根据需要随时进行改进。对象语言是亚洲和非洲的小语种，不进行商业处理。每种语言的使用者当然都是母语人士。迄今为止处理的语言有 19 种。然而，由于个人计算机的质量和数量的缺乏、研究者的行动等原因，并不是所有的超词汇表都是完整的。对于12种语言，语音词汇表已经完成并且接近完成（参见参考文献）。至于其余七种语言，书面数据已经输入，语音数据正在输入中。它们已准备好在不久的将来使用。每种语言的超词汇量约为2000个单词，但有些语言如藏语超过3000个单词。由于本项目的特点，结果以MO盘和CD的形式发布，而不是以书面文章的形式发布。目前的超级词汇表是为 Machintosh 制作的，但我们正在开发为任何个人计算机应用词典的方法。即使在 1998 年 3 月 Monbusho 科学研究补助金支持该项目之后，这些研究和工作仍将继续结束了。随时进行单词的添加和删除。