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bjb-20120318
User: speechsubmission
Date: 7/19/2012 3:15 pm
Views: 669
Rating: 0
Speaker Characteristics:

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

Recording Information (don't worry if you can't find some of this 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 1.3.12-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:


vf14-01 Without them he could not run his empire
vf14-02 For such countries nothing remained but reorganization
vf14-03 They could not continue their method of producing surpluses
vf14-04 At once would be instituted a dozen cooperative commonwealth states
vf14-05 The Oligarchy wanted violence, and it set its agents provocateurs to work
vf14-06 Nowhere did the raw earth appear
vf14-07 The lush vegetation of that sheltered spot make a natural shield
vf14-08 Men who endure it, call it living death
vf14-09 As I say, he had tapped the message very rapidly
vf14-10 Ask him, I laughed, then turned to Pasquini
vf14-11 In what bucolic school of fence he had been taught was beyond imagining
vf14-12 May drought destroy your crops
vf14-13 Dunham, can your boy go along with Jesse
vf14-14 But Johannes could, and did
vf14-15 A new preacher and a new doctrine come to Jerusalem
vf14-16 He would destroy all things that are fixed
vf14-17 He was an enthusiast and a desert dweller
vf14-18 What Pascal glimpsed with the vision of a seer, I have lived
vf14-19 I should like to engage just for one whole life in that
vf14-20 Yea, so are all the lesser animals of today clean
vf14-21 The Warden with a quart of champagne
vf14-22 Without a doubt, some of them have dinner engagements
vf14-23 I had been born with no organic, chemical predisposition toward alcohol
vf14-24 He may anticipate the day of his death
vf14-25 The Italian rancho was a bachelor establishment
vf14-26 I lost my balance and pitched head foremost into the ooze
vf14-27 Men like Joe Goose dated existence from drunk to drunk
vf14-28 Also, churches and preachers I had never known
vf14-29 Do you know that we weigh every pound of coal we burn
vf14-30 This also became part of the daily schedule
vf14-31 All an appearance can know is mirage
vf14-32 Yet he dreams he is immortal, I argue feebly
vf14-33 I am writing these lines in Honolulu, Hawaii
vf14-34 Jack London, Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Oahu
vf14-35 Jerry was so secure in his nook that he did not roll away
vf14-36 Why, he's bought forty pounds of goods from you already
vf14-37 The last refugee had passed
vf14-38 And the foundation stone of service, in his case, was obedience
vf14-39 Peace be unto you and grace before the Lord
vf14-40 His mouth opened; words shaped vainly on his lips

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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