"This work was produced, in part under the PhD dissertation of João Paulo Teixeira and in part under the ANTIGONA Project (Program IC-PME)"
Here we present a demonstration of one track (110 seconds) of the labelled Portuguese Speech DataBase.
Every track has been carefully examined and segmentation marks placed using the Speech Filing System (SFS) software tool from UCL. Phrase, word and phoneme labels were then attached. The tonic syllable was also identified and labelled just before the first phoneme of the syllable. All annotations reside in a text file together with the time label of the instant of beginning of the element. The phonetic level labels are based in the SAMPA (http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/home.htm) code extended with some other necessary codes presented in the table. The segmentation labels used at the word and phrase levels are presented in the final rows.
| Code | Meaning |
| p, b, t, d, k, g | Burst segment of plosive consonants in SAMPA code |
| ! | Stop segment of plosive consonants |
| f, v, s, z, S, Z | Fricatives in SAMPA code |
| m, n, J | Nasals in SAMPA code |
| L, l, R, r | Liquids in SAMPA code |
| l* | l at the end of syllable (velar l) |
| i, e, E, a, 6, O, o, u, @ | Vowels in SAMPA code |
| i~,e~,6~,o~,u~,w~,j~ | Nasal vowels in SAMPA code |
| w, j | Semi-vowels in SAMPA code |
| X | Silence |
| XX | Aspiration |
| " | Beginning of tonic syllable |
| Word level | |
| i | Beginning of word |
| f | End of word |
| Phrase level | |
| i | Beginning of phrase |
| . | End of phrase |
| , ! () - ; : ... " | All punctuation marks that occur in the text |