Speaker Characteristics:
Gender: female;
Age range: adult;
Language: EN;
Pronunciation dialect: Canadian English.
Recording Information (don't worry if you can't find some of this information):
Microphone make: there is no name on it - whitebox;
Microphone type: desktop mic;
Audio card make: Analog Devices AD1989B;
Audio card type: integrated;
Audio Recording Software: Audacity rel 1.3.12-beta;
O/S: Debian Squeeze.
File Info:
File type: FLAC;
Sampling rate: 48kHz;
Sample rate format: 16bit;
Number of channels: 1;
Audio Processing: no.
Copyright (C) 2012 [Brenda J. Butler]
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vf29-01 A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens
vf29-02 when suddenly he espied something shining amid the straw.
vf29-03 Ho! ho! quoth he, that's for me,
vf29-04 and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw.
vf29-05 What did it turn out to be but a Pearl
vf29-06 that by some chance had been lost in the yard?
vf29-07 You may be a treasure, quoth Master Cock, to men that prize you,
vf29-08 but for me I would rather have a single barley-corn than a peck of pearls.
vf29-09 Precious things are for those that can prize them
vf29-10 Once upon a time a Wolf was lapping at a spring on a hillside,
vf29-11 when, looking up, what should he see
vf29-12 but a Lamb just beginning to drink a little lower down.
vf29-13 There's my supper, thought he, if only I can find some excuse to seize it.
vf29-14 Then he called out to the Lamb,
vf29-15 How dare you muddle the water from which I am drinking?
vf29-16 Nay, master, nay, said Lambikin;
vf29-17 if the water be muddy up there, I cannot be the cause of it,
vf29-18 for it runs down from you to me.
vf29-19 Well, then, said the Wolf, why did you call me bad names this time last year?
vf29-20 That cannot be, said the Lamb; I am only six months old.
vf29-21 I dont care, snarled the Wolf; if it was not you it was your father;
vf29-22 and with that he rushed upon the poor little Lamb and ate her all up.
vf29-23 But before she died she gasped out.
vf29-24 Any excuse will serve a tyrant
vf29-25 It happened that a Dog had got a piece of meat
vf29-26 and was carrying it home in his mouth to eat it in peace.
vf29-27 Now on his way home he had to cross a plank lying across a running brook.
vf29-28 As he crossed, he looked down
vf29-29 and saw his own shadow reflected in the water beneath.
vf29-30 Thinking it was another dog with another piece of meat,
vf29-31 he made up his mind to have that also.
vf29-32 So he made a snap at the shadow in the water, but as he opened his mouth
vf29-33 the piece of meat fell out,
vf29-34 dropped into the water and was never seen more.
vf29-35 Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow
vf29-36 The Lion went once a-hunting along with the Fox, the Jackal, and the Wolf.
vf29-37 They hunted and they hunted till at last they surprised a Stag,
vf29-38 and soon took its life.
vf29-39 Then came the question how the spoil should be divided.
vf29-40 Quarter me this Stag, roared the Lion;
vf29-41 so the other animals skinned it and cut it into four parts.
vf29-42 Then the Lion took his stand in front of the carcass
vf29-43 and pronounced judgment
vf29-44 The first quarter is for me in my capacity as King of Beasts;
vf29-45 the second is mine as arbiter;
vf29-46 another share comes to me for my part in the chase;
vf29-47 and as for the fourth quarter, well, as for
vf29-48 that, I should like to see which of you will dare to lay a paw upon it.
vf29-49 Humph, grumbled the Fox as he walked away with his tail between his legs;
vf29-50 but he spoke in a low growl. You may share the labours of the great,
vf29-51 but you will not share the spoil
The prompt labels (eg, vf29-38, vf29-39 etc) have been adjusted for the missing prompt vf29-38 in this set. So now the prompt labels above match the file names as produced by audacity with "save multiple"
In my last submission, phoneme-28, prompt 14 was:
Tomorrow or next day it might he gone
but perhaps should have been:
Tomorrow or next day it might be gone
(ie, he -> be)
I pronounced it as written so the sound file would match the prompts file.
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