English Speech Files

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ralfherzog-20070912-vf26
User: ralfherzog
Date: 9/12/2007 6:49 pm
Views: 1526
Rating: 7

Speaker Characteristics:

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

Recording Information:

Microphone make: Sennheiser PC 131;
Microphone type: noise canceling headset;
Audio card make: Andrea USB adapter;
Audio card type: USB;
Audio Recording Software: Audacity 1.2.6;
O/S: Windows XP Professional.

File Info:

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

vf26-01 She is essentially the life-giving, life-conserving female of the species
vf26-02 This was when the explosion occurred
vf26-03 Also, at regular intervals, he would mutter
vf26-04 It is a very tenable hypothesis, and will bear looking into
vf26-05 There were orange-green, gold-green, and a copper-green
vf26-06 The Gabriel voice of the Samurai rang out
vf26-07 The sunsets grow more bizarre and spectacular off this coast of the Argentine
vf26-08 The history of our westward-faring race is written in it
vf26-09 And the Eurasian Chinese-Englishman bowed himself away
vf26-10 They were babbling and chattering all together
vf26-11 Too much, he told me, with ominous rolling head
vf26-12 He is a candidate, rising from the serf class to our class
vf26-13 We are cooking on the coal stove and on the oil burners
vf26-14 The steward has just tendered me a respectful bit of advice
vf26-15 Well, did they eat
vf26-16 Famine had been my great ally
vf26-17 Nowhere in the North is the soil so prolific
vf26-18 They ran the canoe in and climbed the high earth bank
vf26-19 The land exchanged its austere robes for the garb of a smiling wanton
vf26-20 There were stir and bustle, new faces, and fresh facts
vf26-21 And there was Ethel Baird, whom also you must remember
vf26-22 He had become a man very early in life
vf26-23 I did not think you would be so early
vf26-24 He did not know what went on in the minds of his superiors
vf26-25 Mops, sir, eagerly answered the sailor at the wheel
vf26-26 Some one had thrust a large sheath-knife into his hand
vf26-27 O'Brien emitted a shriek that sank swiftly to a gurgling sob
vf26-28 Sandel would never become a world champion
vf26-29 Also, she wouldn't walk
vf26-30 To my dearest and always appreciated friend, I submit myself
vf26-31 You used to joyride like the very devil
vf26-32 They saw each other for the first time in Boston
vf26-33 Isaac Ford, the austere soldier of the Lord, the old hypocrite
vf26-34 Eighteen, he added
vf26-35 His reward should have been peace and repose
vf26-36 He was an amphibian and a mountaineer
vf26-37 It was sanctification and salvation
vf26-38 The history of the eighteenth century is written, Ernest prompted
vf26-39 They are not biologists nor sociologists
vf26-40 The more his opponents grew excited, the more Ernest deliberately excited them

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--- (Edited on 9/12/2007 6:49 pm [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-20070912-vf26
User: kmaclean
Date: 9/13/2007 11:28 am
Views: 171
Rating: 9

Hi Ralf,

Wow! With these last 2 submissions, you surpassed the 100 minute mark (for English at least ... if we include German, you passed that a while ago)!

Way to go!

thanks,

Ken 

--- (Edited on 9/13/2007 12:28 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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