VoxForge
Speaker Characteristics:
Gender: male;
Age range: senior;
Pronunciation dialect: Australian English.
Recording Information:
Microphone make: Logitech;
Microphone type: usb headset mic;
Audio card make: NVidia;
Audio card type: integrated (or should it be:) usb pod;
Audio Recording Software: Audacity rel 1.3.3-beta;
O/S: Mandriva Linux 2008 with "Multimedia" kernel.
File Info:
File type: wav;
Sampling rate: 48kHz;
Sample rate format: 16bit;
Number of channels: 1;
Audio Processing: Y.
NOTE: Residual noise jumped mysteriously, so I have applied Audacity Noise Removal to most tracks.
Copyright (C) Douglas John Laidlaw. 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.
vf8-1 I do not blame you for anything; remember that
vf8-2 If you mean to insinuate -- Brentwood began hotly
vf8-3 The woman in you is only incidental, accidental, and irrelevant
vf8-4 There was no forecasting this strange girl's processes
vf8-5 But what they want with your toothbrush is more than I can imagine
vf8-6 Give them their choice between a fine or an official whipping
vf8-7 Keep an eye on him
vf8-8 Those are my oysters, he said at last
vf8-9 They are not regular oyster pirates, Nicholas continued
vf8-10 One by one the boys were captured
vf8-11 The weeks had gone by, and no overt acts had been attempted
vf8-12 Here, in the midmorning, the first casualty occurred
vf8-13 They were deep in the primeval forest
vf8-14 He had been foiled in his attempt to escape
vf8-15 And twenty men could hold it with spears and arrows
vf8-16 Bassett was a fastidious man
vf8-17 There's a big English general right now whose name is Roberts
vf8-18 This tacit promise of continued acquaintance gave Saxon a little joy-thrill
vf8-19 I tell you I am disgusted with this adventure tomfoolery and rot
vf8-20 From my earliest recollection my sleep was a period of terror
vf8-21 But all my dreams violated this law
vf8-22 It is very plausible to such people, a most convincing hypothesis
vf8-23 But they make the mistake of ignoring their own duality
vf8-24 I graduated last of my class
vf8-25 They had no fixed values, to be altered by adjectives and adverbs
vf8-26 He was pressing beyond the limits of his vocabulary
vf8-27 Very early in my life, I separated from my mother
vf8-28 His infernal chattering worries me even now as I think of it
vf8-29 White Leghorns, said Mrs Mortimer
vf8-30 Massage under tension, was the cryptic reply
vf8-31 Therefore, hurrah for the game
vf8-32 It lived in perpetual apprehension of that quarter of the compass
vf8-33 Broken-Tooth yelled with fright and pain
vf8-34 Thus was momentum gained in the Younger World
vf8-35 Saxon waited, for she knew a fresh idea had struck Billy
vf8-36 We had been chased by them ourselves, more than once
vf8-37 He was a wise hyena
vf8-38 Production is doubling and quadrupling upon itself
vf8-39 And the Edinburgh Evening News says, with editorial gloom
vf8-40 With my strength I slammed it full into Red-Eye's face
--- (Edited on 2/13/2008 10:34 am [GMT-0600] by douglaid) ---
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. |
Hi doug,
Thanks for your submission!
Here is the link to the audio in the VoxForge Speech Corpus:
douglaid-20080213.tgz 14-Feb-2008 03:42 17.7M
thanks,
Ken--- (Edited on 2/14/2008 10:12 am [GMT-0500] by kmaclean) ---
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. |