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An Investigational Approach for Vowels of the Salar Language Based on a Database of Speech Acoustic Parameters

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According to relevant specifications, this article divides, marks, and extracts the acquired speech signals of the Salar language, and establishes the speech acoustic parameter database of the Salar language. Then, the vowels of the Salar language are analyzed and studied by using the parameter database. The vowel bitmap (average value at the beginning of words), the vowel bitmap (average value at the abdomen of words), the vowel bitmap (average value at the ending of words), and the vowel bitmap (average value) are obtained. Through the vowel bitmaps, we can observe the vowel in different positions of the word, the overall appearance of an obtuse triangle. The high vowel [i], [o], and low vowel [a] occupy three vertices, respectively. Among the three lines, [i] to [o] are the longest, [i] to [a] are the second longest, and [a] to [o] are the shortest. The lines between [a] to [o] and [a] and [i] are asymmetric. Combining with the vowel bitmap, the vowels were discretized, and the second formant (F2) frequency parameter was used as the coordinate of the X axis, and the first formant (F1) frequency was used as the coordinate of the Y axis to draw the region where the vowel was located, and then the vowel pattern was formed. These studies provide basic data and parameters for the future development of modern phonetics such as the database of Sarah language speech, speech recognition, and speech synthesis. It also provides the basic parameters of speech acoustics for the rare minority acoustic research work of the national language project.

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        cover image ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing
        ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing  Volume 20, Issue 5
        September 2021
        320 pages
        ISSN:2375-4699
        EISSN:2375-4702
        DOI:10.1145/3467024
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        • Published: 24 September 2021
        • Received: 1 September 2021
        • Accepted: 1 April 2021
        • Revised: 1 March 2021
        Published in tallip Volume 20, Issue 5

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