English Speech Files

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anonymous-20100624-iix
User: speechsubmission
Date: 7/10/2010 1:41 am
Views: 769
Rating: 0
User Name:anonymous

Speaker Characteristics:

Gender: Male
Age Range: Adult
Language: EN
Pronunciation dialect: American English

Recording Information:

Microphone make: n/a
Microphone type: Laptop Built-in mic
Audio card make: unknown
Audio card type: unknown
Audio Recording Software: VoxForge Speech Submission Application
O/S:

File Info:

File type: wav
Sampling Rate: 48000
Sample rate format: 16
Number of channels: 1

Prompts:

rp-12 To the Hebrews it was a token that there would be no more universal floods.
rp-13 The Greeks used to imagine that it was a sign
rp-14 from the gods to foretell war or heavy rain.
rp-15 The Norsemen considered the rainbow as a bridge
rp-16 over which the gods passed from earth to their home in the sky.
rp-17 Others have tried to explain the phenomenon physically.
rp-18 Aristotle thought that the rainbow was caused by
rp-19 reflection of the sun's rays by the rain.
rp-20 Since then physicists have found that it is not reflection,
rp-21 but refraction by the raindrops which causes the rainbows.

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--- (Edited on 7/10/2010 1:41 am [GMT-0500] by speechsubmission) ---


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.

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