English Speech Files

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bjb-20120210
User: speechsubmission
Date: 7/19/2012 3:15 pm
Views: 618
Rating: 0
Speaker Characteristics:

Gender: female
Age range: adult
Language: EN
Pronunciation dialect: Canadian English

Recording Information:

Microphone make: there is no name on it - whitebox
Microphone type: desktop mic
Audio card make: Analog Devices AD1989B
Audio card type: integrated
Audio Recording Software: Audacity rel 1312-beta
O/S: Debian Squeeze

File Info:

File type: FLAC
Sampling rate: 48kHz
Sample rate format: 16bit
Number of channels: 1
Audio Processing: no

Prompts:


vf28-01 And wherever I ranged, the way lay along alcohol-drenched roads
vf28-02 And as we hurried up town, Joe Goose explained
vf28-03 The scents of strange vegetation blew off the tropic land
vf28-04 The life there was healthful and athletic, but too juvenile
vf28-05 How valiantly I went at it that first day
vf28-06 It would help to tide me along until I got steady employment
vf28-07 Did I possess too much vitality
vf28-08 In his anxiety and solicitude and love they did not count
vf28-09 He had fulfilled his duty and paid properly
vf28-10 He knew what taboos he was violating
vf28-11 Do you value your hide
vf28-12 You should have seen them when they heard me spitting Chinook
vf28-13 He plodded on for half an hour, when the hallucination arose again
vf28-14 Tomorrow or next day it might he gone
vf28-15 But already he had composed himself
vf28-16 Zilla relaxed her sour mouth long enough to sigh her satisfaction
vf28-17 Eggshell is not good to eat
vf28-18 But there was also talk of witchcraft in the village
vf28-19 Yea, I will tell thee
vf28-20 Hans hurled himself upon the prostrate man, striking madly with his fists
vf28-21 And he thought of Oona, and of her words
vf28-22 Nor would it thaw out his hands and feet
vf28-23 The Russian music player, the Count, was her obedient slave
vf28-24 So far as flags were concerned, they were beyond all jurisdiction
vf28-25 New idea, he volunteered, brand new idea
vf28-26 Thirty pounds, said the captain with finality
vf28-27 The very idea of it was preposterous
vf28-28 Captain Doane's orders were swiftly obeyed
vf28-29 Come on, Del Mar challenged
vf28-30 He had a big chimpanzee that was a winner
vf28-31 I am sure it must have been some adventure
vf28-32 That Longfellow chap most likely had written countless books of poetry
vf28-33 His abnormal power of vision made abstractions take on concrete form
vf28-34 I'll tell you, the librarian said with a brightening face
vf28-35 He read his fragments aloud
vf28-36 Typhoid -- did I tell you
vf28-37 But she had become an automaton
vf28-38 At the best, they were necessary accessories
vf28-39 You were making them talk shop, Ruth charged him

License:


Copyright (C) 2012 [Brenda J. Butler]

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--- (Edited on 7/19/2012 3:15 pm [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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