Apr 18, 2014 · The classification experiments were performed on fricative consonants extracted from a TIMIT database , which contains a total of 6,300 continuous sentences spoken by 639 speakers from eight dialect regions in the United States. The sentences were recorded in a noise-free environment with a sampling rate of 16 kHz and 16-bit resolution.

Dzongkha (རྫོང་ཁ་; [dzòŋkʰɑ́]) is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by over half a million people in Bhutan; it is the country's sole official and national language. The Tibetan script is used to write Dzongkha.. The word dzongkha means "the language of the palace"; dzong means "palace" and kha is language. As of 2013, Dzongkha had 171,080 native speakers and about 640,000 ...

Rusyn (/ ˈ r uː s ɪ n /; Carpathian Rusyn: русиньскый язык, romanized: rusîn'skyj jazyk; Pannonian Rusyn: руски язик, romanized: ruski jazik), also known by the older term, руснацькый язык, rusnac'kyj jazyk, 'Rusnak language', is an East Slavic language spoken by Rusyns in several parts of Central and Eastern Europe, and written in the Cyrillic script.