Talk:Assamese language
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the last paragraph was copied exactly from [1] (http://www.assam.org/assam/language/alphabets.html) Kingturtle 08:53 May 1, 2003 (UTC)
other parts were taken directly from [2] (http://saumi.tripod.com/who_i_am.htm) Kingturtle 08:56 May 1, 2003 (UTC)
Spectral Analysis on unique phonemes of native Assamese speakers -by Dr Rabin Deka
- The web link [3] (http://www.iitg.ernet.in/rcilts/asamiya.htm) (Moral 1992 - http://www.iitg.ernet.in/rcilts/asamiya.htm) of IIT Guwahati - the author in the link bundled up three distinct phonemes of the modern Assamese language into one phoneme.
- For your information IPA, i.e., International Phonetic Alphabet authority never did any spectral analysis on any Assamese phoneme.
- Although the X.wav file in link from IIT Guwahati [4] (http://www.iitg.ernet.in/rcilts/Wave/word/assamese/X.wav) (http://www.iitg.ernet.in/rcilts/Wave/word/assamese/X.wav) is badly recorded, i.e., voice clipped exceeding 16-bit limit, the file is still good enough in order to assess, or conduct, a spectral analysis enebling to predict that this phoneme does not belong to the frequency range of the claimed voiceless velar fricative range.
- Any with the knowledge of Digital Signal Processing may quickly conduct an experiment on the said X.wav file in link (use an FFT, Fast Fourier transform, with a standard window function, a minimum 2048 point-FFT is recommended with a Blackman-Harris window; then compare with a standard voice frequency chart).
- The contributor of the above four bullets is Dr. Rabin Deka, who is currently a Professor of Digital Signal Processing and Communications. He had visited IIT Guwahati in year 1996 (from where the web links originated) and presented a scientific talk on "Human Voice Conversion Techniques and Algorithms". Currently he lives in San Jose, California.