English Speech Files

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wicke-20090314-jtl
User: speechsubmission
Date: 3/19/2009 12:46 pm
Views: 797
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User Name:wicke

Speaker Characteristics:

Gender: Male
Age Range: Youth
Language: EN
Pronunciation dialect: European English

Recording Information:

Microphone make: n/a
Microphone type: Headset mic
Audio card make: unknown
Audio card type: unknown
Audio Recording Software: VoxForge Speech Submission Application
O/S:

File Info:

File type: wav
Sampling Rate: 48000
Sample rate format: 16
Number of channels: 1

Prompts:

rb-18 Modern computers have far more computing power than hand-held devices.
rb-19 That means that when a programmer wants to write speech recognition software,
rb-20 it is necessary to keep in mind on which hardware the software will run.
rb-21 A full-blown computer offers a programmer the freedom to develop software
rb-22 that allows the end user to issue a wider array of commands.
rb-23 In practice this will allow end users to issue commands such as "go to previous paragraph"
rb-24 "go up one paragraph" or even "I want to edit the previous paragraph".
rb-25 Where all these commands might lead to the same result on that powerful PC,
rb-26 the software on a hand-held device might only respond to one specific command.
rb-27 The same would be the case for other tasks such as browsing the Web,

License:

Copyright 2009 Free Software Foundation

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.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with these files. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.


wicke-20090314-jtl.tgz

--- (Edited on 3/19/2009 12:46 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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