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ralfherzog-20070814_vf13.zip
User: ralfherzog
Date: 8/14/2007 12:04 am
Views: 2564
Rating: 8
Hello everyone! Hello Ken! Hello Robin!  I named the readme file "readme.txt", the license file "license.txt", the prompts file "prompts.txt".  I hope that is OK for you guys.  Because those documents contain text, I think it is a good idea to choose the suffix ".txt."

Speaker Characteristics:

Gender: male;
Age range: adult;
Pronunciation dialect: General American.

Recording Information:

Microphone make: Sennheiser PC131;
Microphone type: noise canceling headset;
Audio card make: OnBoard - Mainboard: Asrock 939Dual-SATA2;
Audio card type: OnBoard - Realtek 850;
Audio Recording Software: Audacity 1.2.6;
O/S: Windows XP Professional.

File Info:

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

vf13-01 Nimrod replied, with a slight manifestation of sensitiveness
vf13-02 And their chief virtue lies in that they will never wear out
vf13-03 Beyond dispute, Corry Hutchinson had married Mabel Holmes
vf13-04 No-sir-ee
vf13-05 Each insult added to the value of the claim
vf13-06 For the rest, he was a mere automaton
vf13-07 The river bared its bosom, and snorting steamboats challenged the wilderness
vf13-08 Their love burned with increasing brightness
vf13-09 They were artists, not biologists
vf13-10 Both Johnny and his mother shuffled their feet as they walked
vf13-11 And as in denial of guilt, the one-legged boy replied
vf13-12 Burnt out like the crater of a volcano
vf13-13 The boy, O'Brien, was specially maltreated
vf13-14 O'Brien took off his coat and bared his right arm
vf13-15 He bore no grudges and had few enemies
vf13-16 And Tom King patiently endured
vf13-17 King took every advantage he knew
vf13-18 The lines were now very taut
vf13-19 And right there I saw and knew it all
vf13-20 Who the devil gave it to you to be judge and jury
vf13-21 You're joking me, sir, the other managed to articulate
vf13-22 Anything unusual or abnormal was sufficient to send a fellow to Molokai
vf13-23 His beady black eyes saw bargains where other men saw bankruptcy
vf13-24 He was an athlete and a giant
vf13-25 We fished sharks on Niihau together
vf13-26 The Claudine was leaving next morning for Honolulu
vf13-27 In short, my joyous individualism was dominated by the orthodox bourgeois ethics
vf13-28 Soon shall it be thrust back from off prostrate humanity
vf13-29 Yet, in accordance with Ernest's test of truth, it worked
vf13-30 Much more Ernest told them of themselves and of his disillusionment
vf13-31 There is more behind this than a mere university ideal
vf13-32 No, it is a palace, wherein there are many servants
vf13-33 We must give ourselves and not our money alone
vf13-34 We are consumed in our own flesh-pots
vf13-35 But here amongst ourselves let us speak out
vf13-36 Also, there was awe in their faces
vf13-37 Out of abstractions Ernest had conjured a vision and made them see it
vf13-38 Illuminating oil was becoming all profit
vf13-39 Such an act was in direct violation of the laws of the land
vf13-40 He was fond of quoting a fragment from a certain poem  

Copyright (C) 2007  Ralf Herzog

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 2
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.

--- (Edited on 8/14/2007 12:04 am [GMT-0500] by ralfherzog) ---

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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: ralfherzog-20070814_vf13.zip
User: kmaclean
Date: 8/15/2007 1:24 pm
Views: 294
Rating: 8

Hi Ralph,

You've been busy!  Thanks again for the submission. 

Yes the ".txt" suffix is ok.

Ken 

--- (Edited on 8/15/2007 2:24 pm [GMT-0400] 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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