Speaker Characteristics:

Gender: male
Age range: adult
Pronunciation dialect: Northern Irish

Recording Information (don't worry if you can't find some of this information):

Microphone make: Samson Q1U USB Dynamic mic
Microphone type: desktop / boom mic
Audio card make: n/a
Audio card type: n/a
Audio Recording Software: Audacity rel 1.3 beta
O/S: windows and linux

File Info:

File type: wav,
Sampling rate: 44.1kHz
Sample rate format: 16 bit
Number of channels: 1
Audio Processing: 100Hz HiPass Filter and 10Khz Low Pass Filter, converted flac to wav for segmentation of audio

Prompts:

md0001 SELECTION FROM MOBY DICK BY HERMAN MELVILLE
md0002 READ FOR MOJOMOVE FOUR ONE ONE DOT COM BY DELIBAB
md0003 AS PART OF THE VOXFORGE DOT ORG SHORTS WEEKLY MONOLOGUE COLLECTION
md0004 CALL ME ISHMAEL SOME YEARS AGO NEVER MIND HOW LONG PRECISELY
md0005 HAVING LITTLE OR NO MONEY IN MY PURSE
md0006 AND NOTHING PARTICULAR TO INTEREST ME ON SHORE
md0007 I THOUGHT I WOULD SAIL ABOUT A LITTLE AND SEE THE WATERY PART OF THE WORLD
md0008 IT IS A WAY I HAVE OF DRIVING OFF THE SPLEEN AND REGULATING THE CIRCULATION
md0009 WHENEVER I FIND MYSELF GROWING GRIM ABOUT THE MOUTH WHENEVER IT IS A DAMP
md0010 DRIZZLY NOVEMBER IN MY SOUL WHENEVER I FIND MYSELF INVOLUNTARILY PAUSING BEFORE COFFIN WAREHOUSES
md0011 AND BRINGING UP THE REAR OF EVERY FUNERAL I MEET
md0012 AND ESPECIALLY WHENEVER MY HYPOS GET SUCH AN UPPER HAND OF ME
md0013 THAT IT REQUIRES A STRONG MORAL PRINCIPLE TO PREVENT ME FROM DELIBERATELY STEPPING INTO THE STREET
md0014 AND METHODICALLY KNOCKING PEOPLE'S HATS OFF THEN I ACCOUNT IT HIGH TIME TO GET TO SEA
md0015 AS SOON AS I CAN THIS IS MY SUBSTITUTE FOR PISTOL AND BALL
md0016 WITH A PHILOSOPHICAL FLOURISH CATO THROWS HIMSELF UPON HIS SWORD
md0017 I QUIETLY TAKE TO THE SHIP THERE IS NOTHING SURPRISING IN THIS
md0018 IF THEY BUT KNEW IT ALMOST ALL MEN IN THEIR DEGREE SOME TIME OR OTHER
md0019 CHERISH VERY NEARLY THE SAME FEELINGS TOWARDS THE OCEAN WITH ME
md0020 THIS RECORDING IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

License:

Copyright (C) 2007 Delibab

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.

delibab-20071029.tgz

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