English Speech Files

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atterer-02052007-vf5
User: atterer
Date: 2/5/2007 5:00 pm
Views: 2355
Rating: 13

Speaker Characteristics:

Gender: male;
Age range: adult;
Pronunciation dialect: British English (actually, non-native speaker, mother tongue is German)

Recording Information:

Microphone: cheap no-name, carbon;
Audio Card: Intel 82801DB-ICH4;
Audio Recording Software: Audacity rel 1.2.4;
O/S: Linux 2.6.17.9.

File Info:

File type: wav;
Sampling rate: 48kHz;
Sample rate format: 16bit;
Number of channels: 1.

 

vf5-01 Take away their foreman and they wouldn't be worth their grub
vf5-02 That's the sub-foreman, explained Thorpe
vf5-03 Philip made no effort to follow
vf5-04 He came first a year ago, and revealed himself to Jeanne
vf5-05 They are to attack your camp tomorrow night
vf5-06 Two days ago Jeanne learned where her father's men were hiding
vf5-07 I was near the cabin, and saw you
vf5-08 Low bush whipped him in the face and left no sting
vf5-09 Suddenly Jeanne stopped for an instant
vf5-10 There was none of the joy of meeting in his face
vf5-11 And when you come back in a few days, bring Eileen
vf5-12 Gregson had left the outer door slightly ajar
vf5-13 The date was nearly eighteen years old
vf5-14 They were the presage of storm
vf5-15 Down there the earth was already swelling with life
vf5-16 For the first time in his life he was yearning for a scrap
vf5-17 She had been thoroughly and efficiently mauled
vf5-18 Every bone in her aged body seemed broken or dislocated
vf5-19 Tomorrow I'm going after that bear, he said
vf5-20 If not, let's say our prayers and go to bed
vf5-21 So cheer up, and give us your paw
vf5-22 This time he did not yap for mercy
vf5-23 And the air was growing chilly
vf5-24 Don't you see, I'm chewing this thing in two
vf5-25 The questions may have come vaguely in his mind
vf5-26 Like a flash he launched himself into the feathered mass of the owl
vf5-27 Ahead of them they saw a glimmer of sunshine
vf5-28 Two gigantic owls were tearing at the carcass
vf5-29 The big-eyed, clucking moose-birds were most annoying
vf5-30 Next to them the Canada jays were most persistent
vf5-31 For a time the exciting thrill of his adventure was gone
vf5-32 He did not rush in
vf5-33 It was edged with ice
vf5-34 He drank of the water cautiously
vf5-35 But a strange thing happened
vf5-36 He began to follow the footprints of the dog
vf5-37 Such a dog the wise driver kills, or turns loose
vf5-38 Sometimes her dreams were filled with visions
vf5-39 Thus had the raw wilderness prepared him for this day
vf5-40 He leapt again, and the club caught him once more

 

Copyright (C) 2007  Richard Atterer

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--- (Edited on 2007-02-06 00:00 [GMT+0100] by atterer) ---

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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.

Re: atterer-02052007-vf5
User: kmaclean
Date: 2/6/2007 9:14 am
Views: 287
Rating: 8

Hi Richard,

Thanks for your submission. 

Your speech audio was incorporated into last night's VoxForge Acoustic Model nightly build (just select the most current version).  You can see how much your audio contributed to our release 1.0 goal (140 hours of speech) on the new Metrics page.

You can also get some additional information in the Subversion entry for your audio.  The HDMan_log file gives you information on the number of words used in your submission, and the phone counts.  The HVite_log file shows the results of a partial Acoustic Model training session to ensure that your wav files match their corresponding prompts file.   And the wavfile_details file shows the output of a check to make sure that the sample rate and bits per sample of your wav files matches the contents of your README.

Ken

--- (Edited on 2/ 6/2007 10:14 am [GMT-0500] 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.

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