English Speech Files

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delibab-20071020
User: speechsubmission
Date: 2/3/2008 10:55 pm
Views: 1106
Rating: 9

Speaker Characteristics:

Gender: male
Age range: adult
Pronunciation dialect: Northern Irish

Recording Information (don't worry if you can't find some of this information):

Microphone make: Samson Q1U USB Dynamic mic
Microphone type: desktop / boom mic
Audio card make: n/a
Audio card type: n/a
Audio Recording Software: Audacity rel 1.3 beta
O/S: windows & linux
 
 File Info:
 
 File type: wav,
 Sampling rate: 44.1kHz
 Sample rate format: 16 bit
 Number of channels: 1
 Audio Processing: 100Hz HiPass Filter & 10Khz Low Pass Filter, converted flac to wav for segmentation of audio
 
Prompts:

tth0001 SELECTION FROM THE TELL TALE HEART BY EDGAR ALLEN POE
 tth0002 READ FOR MOJOMOVE FOUR ONE ONE DOT COM BY DELIBAB
 tth0003 AS PART OF THE VOXFORGE DOT ORG SHORTS WEEKLY MONOLOGUE COLLECTION
 tth0004 TRUE NERVOUS VERY VERY DREADFULLY NERVOUS I HAD BEEN AND AM
 tth0005 BUT WHY WILL YOU SAY THAT I AM MAD
 tth0006 THE DISEASE HAD SHARPENED MY SENSES NOT DESTROYED NOT
 tth0007 DULLED THEM ABOVE ALL WAS THE SENSE OF HEARING ACUTE
 tth0008 I HEARD ALL THINGS IN THE HEAVEN AND IN THE EARTH
 tth0009 I HEARD MANY THINGS IN HELL HOW THEN AM I MAD
 tth0010 HEARKEN AND OBSERVE HOW HEALTHILY HOW CALMLY I CAN TELL YOU THE WHOLE STORY
 tth0011 IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY HOW FIRST THE IDEA ENTERED MY BRAIN
 tth0012 BUT ONCE CONCEIVED IT HAUNTED ME DAY AND NIGHT OBJECT
 tth0013 THERE WAS NONE PASSION THERE WAS NONE I LOVED THE OLD MAN
 tth0014 HE HAD NEVER WRONGED ME HE HAD NEVER GIVEN ME INSULT
 tth0015 FOR HIS GOLD I HAD NO DESIRE I THINK IT WAS HIS EYE
 tth0016 YES IT WAS THIS HE HAD THE EYE OF A VULTURE
 tth0017 A PALE BLUE EYE WITH A FILM OVER IT
 tth0018 WHENEVER IT FELL UPON ME MY BLOOD RAN COLD
 tth0019 AND SO BY DEGREES VERY GRADUALLY
 tth0020 I MADE UP MY MIND TO TAKE THE LIFE OF THE OLD MAN
 tth0021 AND THUS RID MYSELF OF THE EYE FOREVER
 tth0022 THIS RECORDING IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN  

License:

Copyright (C) 2007 Delibab
 
 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 GNU General Public License for more details. 

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--- (Edited on 2/4/2008 12:01 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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