English Speech Files

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User: kmaclean
Date: 12/26/2007 12:32 pm
Views: 982
Rating: 7

User Name:es02

Speaker Characteristics:

Gender: Male
Age Range: Adult
Language: EN
Pronunciation dialect: British English

Recording Information:

Microphone make: n/a
Microphone type: Laptop Built-in mic
Audio card make: unknown
Audio card type: unknown
Audio Recording Software: VoxForge Speech Submission Application
O/S:

File Info:

File type: wav
Sampling Rate: 48000
Sample rate format: 16
Number of channels: 1

Prompts:

rb-12 Many phones already offer the possibility of so-called voice dialing.
rb-13 A major stumbling block is the still limited computing power of these phones.
rb-14 One way to deal with this is to use only a limited number of available commands.
rb-15 That way the software only needs to compare the voice input with a small number of possible options.
rb-16 Modern computers have far more computing power than hand-held devices.
rb-17 That means that when a programmer wants to write speech recognition software,
rb-18 it is necessary to keep in mind on which hardware the software will run.
rb-19 A full-blown computer offers a programmer the freedom to develop software
rb-20 that allows the end user to issue a wider array of commands.
rb-21 In practice this will allow end users to issue commands

License:

Copyright 2007 Free Software Foundation

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.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with these files.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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--- (Edited on 12/26/2007 1:32 pm [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.

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