Speaker Characteristics:

Gender: male
Age range: adult
Language: EN
Pronunciation dialect: European

Recording Information:

Microphone make: hama
Microphone type: headset mic
Audio card make: on a Gigabyte Broard
Audio card type: integrated
Audio Recording Software: [Audacity rel 1.3.7]
O/S: Ubuntu
Quality: some line hum; zero offset

File Info:

File type: WAV
Sampling rate: 48kHz
Sample rate format: 16bit
Number of channels: 1
Audio Processing: [n]

Prompts:

ar--01 Once there was a young rat named Arthur who never could make up his mind.
ar--02 Whenever his friends asked him if he would like to go out with them,
ar--03 he would only answer, "I don't know;" he wouldn't say yes or no either.
ar--04 He would always shirk making a choice. His Aunt Helen said to him,
ar--05 "Now look here! No one is going to care for you if you carry on like this.
ar--06 You have no more mind than a blade of grass."
ar--07 One rainy day the rats heard a great noise in the loft.
ar--08 The pine rafters were all rotten, so that the barn was rather unsafe.
ar--09 At last the joists gave way and fell to the ground.
ar--10 The walls shook, and all the rats' hair stood on end with fear and horror.
ar--11 "This won't do," said the captain; "I'll send out scouts to search for a new home."
ar--12 Within five hours the ten scouts came back and said,
ar--13 "We found a stone house where there is room for us all.
ar--14 There is a kindly horse named Nelly, a cow, a calf, and a garden with an elm tree."
ar--15 The rats crawled out of their little houses and stood on the floor in a long line.
ar--16 Just then the old rat saw Arthur. Stop. he ordered coarsely.
ar--17 "You are coming, of course." "I'm not certain," said Arthur, undaunted,
ar--18 "The roof may not come down yet."
ar--19 "Well," said the old rat, "we can't wait for you to join us. Right about face! March!"
ar--20 Arthur stood and watched them hurry away.
ar--21 "I think I'll go tomorrow," he said calmly to himself, "but then again I don't know;
ar--22 it's so nice and snug here,". That night there was a big crash.
ar--23 In the foggy morning some men with some boys and girls rode up and looked at the barn.
ar--24 One of them moved a board and saw a rat quite dead, half in and half out of his hole.

License:

Copyright (C) 2009 Matthias Lampe

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