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SAMPA (John Wells)
SAMPA (Speech
Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet) is a machine-readable ASCII transliteration of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Originally developed by phoneticians to code six European languages, it is currently being
extended to cover many more languages. SAMPROSA is an extension for
transcribing prosodic information, and XSAMPA is an extension which
covers every symbol on the IPA chart, in principle allowing transcription of all the world's
languages. See also the [#CSLU CSLU Worldbet].