Affiliations: [a] School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, China
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National Institute of Technology, Patna, India
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Corresponding author. Jun Ma, School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Northwest Minzu University, 730030, Lanzhou, China. E-mail: xbmymajun@126.com.
Abstract: “The preservation of endangered ethnic minority languages” and “application of ethnic minority languages” have become an important research direction and topic for the ethnic minority language researchers. Based on the previous studies, the combined quantitative and qualitative analysis was made to carry out a systematic study on vowels and consonants in the Salar language, especially the strong vowels, weak vowels, voiceless consonants, and voiced consonants, in order to create the “Salar Acoustical Phonetics Parameter Database”. According to the relevant norms, the segmentation, labeling, parameters extraction and database creation were conducted against the collected signals, and the experimental research on the Salar phonetics was implemented by making a comprehensive statistical analysis of the database. Through the study of Salar phonetics based on the Salar Acoustical Phonetics Parameter Database, it not only provides basic parameters of acoustic physiology for preservation and research of Salar language, but also provides the basic data for the future Salar acoustical corpus construction, speech recognition and speech synthesis, and provides a practical theoretical basis for the acoustical research of the national language project under construction.
