English Speech Files

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bjb-20120409
User: speechsubmission
Date: 7/17/2012 2:38 pm
Views: 661
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:


vf20-01 And you preferred a cannibal isle and a cartridge belt
vf20-02 I was in New York when the crash came
vf20-03 No, I did not fall among thieves
vf20-04 Such things in her brain were like so many oaths on her lips
vf20-05 Your being wrecked here has been a godsend to me
vf20-06 I can't go elsewhere, by your own account
vf20-07 Her achievements with cocoanuts were a revelation
vf20-08 He glanced down at her helplessly, and moistened his lips
vf20-09 That is what distinguishes all of us from the lower animals
vf20-10 Idealism led him to philosophic anarchy, and his family threw him off
vf20-11 He also contended that better confidence was established by carrying no weapons
vf20-12 Outsiders are allowed five minute speeches, the sick man urged
vf20-13 So was Packard's finish suicide
vf20-14 Joan cried, with shining eyes
vf20-15 Nobody knows how the natives got them
vf20-16 How can you manage all alone, Mr Young
vf20-17 The planters are already considering the matter
vf20-18 I use great trouble advisedly
vf20-19 Dear Sir, Your second victim has fallen on schedule time
vf20-20 We leave the eventuality to time and law
vf20-21 I also understand that similar branch organizations have made their appearance in Europe
vf20-22 Society is shaken to its foundations
vf20-23 A month in Australia would finish me
vf20-24 Down through the perfume weighted air fluttered the snowy fluffs of the cottonwoods
vf20-25 You were destroying my life
vf20-26 Horses and rifles had been her toys, camp and trail her nursery
vf20-27 I'm as good as a man, she urged
vf20-28 You read the quotations in today's paper
vf20-29 He's terribly touchy about his black wards, as he calls them
vf20-30 Whatever he guessed he locked away in the taboo room of Naomi
vf20-31 This is eighteen eighty
vf20-32 Death is and has been ever since old Maui died
vf20-33 Some boy, she laughed acquiescence
vf20-34 Let us talk it over and find a way out
vf20-35 It is a good property, and worth more than that
vf20-36 I wish you were more adaptable, Joan retorted
vf20-37 Such is my passage engaged on the steamer
vf20-38 The issue was not in doubt
vf20-39 Well, there are better men in Hawaii, that's all
vf20-40 Harry Bancroft, Dave lied

License:


Copyright (C) 2012 [Brenda J. Butler]

These files are free software; you can redistribute them and/or
modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

These files are distributed in the hope that they will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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--- (Edited on 7/17/2012 2:39 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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