English Speech Files

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bjb-20120204
User: speechsubmission
Date: 7/19/2012 3:15 pm
Views: 693
Rating: 0
Speaker Characteristics:

Gender: female
Age range: adult
Language: EN
Pronunciation dialect: Canadian English

Recording 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 1312-beta
O/S: Debian Squeeze

File Info:

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

Prompts:


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

License:


Copyright (C) 2012 [Brenda J. Butler]

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--- (Edited on 7/19/2012 3:15 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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