Research Direction
Linguistic planning, project scope definition, dictionary growth, pronunciation modeling goals, and long-term archive development.
Contributors / Credits
People, roles, and project contribution structure
Contributors
Contributors and Project Credits
This page records the contributor structure of the Bishnupriya Manipuri Research Archive, including project leadership, editorial support, technical work, and audio-resource development.
About this page.
The research archive is both a publication framework and a language technology project.
This page recognizes the people and contribution layers involved in building the archive,
the dictionary-centered research workflow, and the speech technology infrastructure.
Credits
| Project Lead | Uttam Singha |
|---|---|
| Project Team | Bishnupriya Manipuri Dictionary and Speech Technology Project |
| Editorial Support | Editorial and Technical Documentation Team |
| Audio Contribution Layer | Audio Recording and Segmentation Workflow |
Contributor Profiles
Uttam Singha
Role: Project Lead
Affiliation: Bishnupriya Manipuri Dictionary and Speech Technology Project
Dictionary developer and language technology researcher working on Bishnupriya Manipuri lexical resources, pronunciation modeling, and speech synthesis.
Bishnupriya Manipuri Dictionary and Speech Technology Project
Role: Project Team
Affiliation: Independent language documentation and speech technology initiative
Research, documentation, dictionary development, IPA modeling, diphone design, and text-to-speech implementation for Bishnupriya Manipuri.
Editorial and Technical Documentation Team
Role: Editorial Support
Affiliation: Research archive documentation
Editorial structuring, formatting, publication design, and technical writing support for the research series.
Audio Recording and Segmentation Workflow
Role: Audio Contribution Layer
Affiliation: BPM speech resource development
Recording, normalization, diphone extraction, and validation of pronunciation audio resources.
Contribution Areas
Dictionary Development
Word collection, lexical editing, metadata structuring, and integration of pronunciation-related fields such as IPA and part-of-speech information.
IPA and Pronunciation Modeling
Rule-based conversion design, phoneme analysis, schwa handling, and computational pronunciation logic.
Diphone and Audio Work
Recording strategy, normalization, segmentation, safe filename mapping, validator workflows, and audio library rebuilding.
Technical Infrastructure
Archive architecture, article templates, metadata systems, glossary, references, index generation, search, and publication workflows.
Publication and Documentation
Book structure, chapter organization, contributor pages, print-friendly design, and long-form research documentation.
How Credits Are Structured in This Archive
Because this archive combines research writing, dictionary development, software implementation, and audio workflow design, contributions may span more than one category. The archive therefore distinguishes between:
- Authorial contribution — research direction and primary content
- Editorial contribution — formatting, structuring, and documentation support
- Technical contribution — infrastructure, templates, tools, and integration
- Audio contribution — recording, normalization, segmentation, and validation
Credit Note
This archive is designed to grow over time. As the project expands,
additional contributors, editors, reviewers, or technical collaborators
can be added to the shared contributor system and displayed consistently
across articles, the combined book, and future project pages.