Where can I listen to some X-SAMPA pronunciations?

AnnieJP   Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:42 am GMT
Does such a site exists? I only know one for IPA.
Guest   Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:16 am GMT
X-SAMPA is a direct translation of the IPA to ASCII encoding, so you just have to learn the correspondences between the IPA and X-SAMPA.
AnnieJP   Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:36 am GMT
Yeah, but if there's a site like I mentioned, I won't have to take the time to learn IPA. :P
Lazar   Sun Jul 15, 2007 3:14 am GMT
I second what Guest said - X-SAMPA is simply a transliteration of IPA.

<<Yeah, but if there's a site like I mentioned, I won't have to take the time to learn IPA.>>

I really think you should learn IPA. X-SAMPA may be more common on some Internet forums like this one, but IPA is basically universal in books and academic websites.

Learning phonetics using only X-SAMPA, without IPA, would be like...learning Japanese using only kana (phonemic characters), without kanji (logographic characters). In both cases, you would know how to write stuff down, but most of the literature would remain inaccessible.
AnnieJP   Sun Jul 15, 2007 3:47 am GMT
Okay, but is there a site which has SAMPA pronunciations? :P It would help me learn IPA better.
davidab   Mon Jul 16, 2007 4:49 am GMT