36.496, Software: New Vox Ars 1.0, simplified phonetic transcription for acoustic spectral analysis

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Subject: 36.496, Software: New Vox Ars 1.0, simplified phonetic transcription for acoustic spectral analysis

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Date: 06-Feb-2025
From: Boris Fridman-Mintz [chido at mac.com]
Subject: New Vox Ars 1.0, simplified phonetic transcription for acoustic spectral analysis


Vox Ars1.0 is now out. Like previous versions this one analyses
151.9756838905775 audio frames per second and provides a phonetic
notation (as well as other measurements) for each and every one of
these frames. However now Vox Ars 1.0 presents this wealth of
information in a more friendly manner for phoneticians and
phonologists:
- Iterated phone notations are collapsed.
- Subscript number are used to represent such iterations.
- Audio frames with background sounds are notated as collapsed
underlined spaces.
- A separate paragraph with a linear transcription begins at every
underlined space.
- Every paragraph is preceded by a time caption.
- The use of diacritics has been significantly reduced.
- The table of phonetics notes contains a simplified set of characters
and diacritics.
- A spreadsheet with detailed information for every notation in also
provided.
These improvements are now exemplified in the analysis of recordings
mostly afforded by the Handbook of the International Phonetic
Association available at:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BCs7duGIMqyE04OtMnciltJ0N4aUzfR6

or

https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/01bU0BJLPCxsKKbzyz35bbSpw#Spectral_analyses
The Table of Phonetic Notes provided in these sites is an
indispensable reference to understand the meaning of the Vox Ars 1.0
generated data. I sell phonetic transcription services and may grant
licenses to institutions or companies that may want to
- Build large transcribed corpora for unwritten linguistic variants;

- Reduce the cost and improve the quality of pronunciation lexicons
and data for LLMs &

- Open new avenues for phonemic and acoustic scientific analysis
across languages.
Feel free to send an email to boris.fridmanmintz at gmail.com with an
attached 2 minute recording, or sets of 200 recorded words, in wav
monoaural file format, in any language. As soon as possible I will
reply to you with the corresponding transcription files.
Vox Ars 1.0 is protected by patents granted in Australia, China, Hong
Kong, Mexico, Republic of Korea and USA (more are on the way).

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology




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