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bjb-20120310
User: speechsubmission
Date: 7/29/2012 5:48 pm
Views: 675
Rating: 0
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.

Prompts:


vf10-01 But he did not broach it, preferring to mature it carefully
vf10-02 Nope, not the slightest idea
vf10-03 It is not an attempt to smash the market
vf10-04 We have plenty of capital ourselves, and yet we want more
vf10-05 These rumors may even originate with us
vf10-06 A wildly exciting time was his during the week preceding Thursday the eighteenth
vf10-07 There is not an iota of truth in it, certainly not
vf10-08 I just do appreciate it without being able to express my feelings
vf10-09 In partnership with Daylight, the pair raided the San Jose Interurban
vf10-10 He saw all men in the business game doing this
vf10-11 It issued a rate of forty two dollars a car on charcoal
vf10-12 He saw only the effect in a general, sketchy way
vf10-13 Points of view, new ideas, life
vf10-14 But life's worth more than cash, she argued
vf10-15 The butchers and meat cutters refused to handle meat destined for unfair restaurants
vf10-16 Your price, my son, is just about thirty per week
vf10-17 This sound did not disturb the hush and awe of the place
vf10-18 That's why its boundaries are all gouged and jagged
vf10-19 How old are you, daddy
vf10-20 But in the canyons water was plentiful and also a luxuriant forest growth
vf10-21 My name's Ferguson
vf10-22 Daylight found himself charmed and made curious by the little man
vf10-23 To his surprise, her answer was flat and uncompromising
vf10-24 The farmer works the soil and produces grain
vf10-25 That's what Carnegie did
vf10-26 I can't argue with you, and you know that
vf10-27 Bob, growing disgusted, turned back suddenly and attempted to pass Mab
vf10-28 It was my idea to a tee
vf10-29 Mab, she said
vf10-30 I'll go over tomorrow afternoon
vf10-31 But he reconciled himself to it by an act of faith
vf10-32 There is that magnificent Bob, eating his head off in the stable
vf10-33 Already he had begun borrowing from the banks
vf10-34 It's the strap hangers that'll keep us from going under
vf10-35 As for himself, weren't the street railway earnings increasing steadily
vf10-36 A rising tide of fat had submerged them
vf10-37 Call me that again, he murmured ecstatically
vf10-38 In the car were Unwin and Harrison, while Jones sat with the chauffeur
vf10-39 And here's another idea
vf10-40 Manuel had one besetting sin

License:


Copyright (C) 2012 [Brenda J. Butler]

These files are free software; you can redistribute them and/or
modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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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
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bjb-20120310.tgz

--- (Edited on 7/29/2012 5:48 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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