VoxForge
Sex: male
Age range: Adult
Pronunication dialect: Maritimes, Canada
Microphone: Cyberacoustics headset
Audio Card: Built-in audio card
Audio Recording Software: Audacity rel 1.2.3
O/S: Linux - Fedora Core 4
File type: wav
sampling rate: 48000Hz
sample rate format: 16bit
number of channels: 1
Copyright (C) 2006 MacLean
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*/a0441 Violent life and athletic sports had never appealed to me
*/a0442 You live on an income which your father earned
*/a0443 He was worth nothing to the world
*/a0444 Then you don't believe in altruism
*/a0445 The creative joy, I murmured
*/a0446 He deluged me, overwhelmed me with argument
*/a0447 Ah, it is growing dark and darker
*/a0448 I was Hump, cabin boy on the schooner Ghost
*/a0449 A sinewy hand, dripping with water, was clutching the rail
*/a0450 No man ate of the seal meat or the oil
*/a0451 I noticed blood spouting from Kerfoot's left hand
*/a0452 Three oilers and a fourth engineer, was his greeting
*/a0453 Eighteen hundred, he calculated
*/a0454 The sharp voice of Wolf Larsen aroused me
*/a0455 I obeyed, and a minute or two later they stood before him
*/a0456 But it won't continue, she said with easy confidence
*/a0457 What I saw I could not at first believe
*/a0458 The stout wood was crushed like an eggshell
*/a0459 There's too much of the schoolboy in me
*/a0460 I had forgotten their existence
--- (Edited on 7/19/2006 12:39 pm [GMT-0400] by kmaclean) ---
Notice: many prompts in "English Speech Files" were adapted from the prompt files contained in the CMU_ARCTIC speech synthesis database, which were in turn derived from out-of-copyright texts from Project Gutenberg, by the FestVox project at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. |