English Speech Files

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kmaclean-06092006
User: kmaclean
Date: 6/9/2006 8:56 pm
Views: 1253
Rating: 17

 

 

Speaker Characteristics:

Sex: male
Age range: Adult
Pronunication dialect: Maritimes, Canada

Recording Information:

Microphone: Cyberacoustics headset
Audio Card: Built-in audio card
Audio Recording Software: Audacity rel 1.2.3
O/S: Linux - Fedora Core 4 

File Info: 

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

License:

Copyright (C) 2006 MacLean
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it 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.

Transcriptions (i.e. the prompts file):

*/a0161 Take away their foreman and they wouldn't be worth their grub 
*/a0162 That's the sub-foreman, explained Thorpe
*/a0163 Philip made no effort to follow
*/a0164 He came first a year ago, and revealed himself to Jeanne
*/a0165 They are to attack your camp tomorrow night
*/a0166 Two days ago Jeanne learned where her father's men were hiding
*/a0167 I was near the cabin, and saw you
*/a0168 Low bush whipped him in the face and left no sting
*/a0169 Suddenly Jeanne stopped for an instant
*/a0170 There was none of the joy of meeting in his face
*/a0171 And when you come back in a few days, bring Eileen
*/a0172 Gregson had left the outer door slightly ajar
*/a0173 The date was nearly eighteen years old
*/a0174 They were the presage of storm
*/a0175 Down there the earth was already swelling with life
*/a0176 For the first time in his life he was yearning for a scrap
*/a0177 She had been thoroughly and efficiently mauled
*/a0178 Every bone in her aged body seemed broken or dislocated
*/a0179 Tomorrow I'm going after that bear, he said
*/a0180 If not, let's say our prayers and go to bed

 

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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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