Speaker Characteristics:

Gender: male;
Age range: adult;
Pronunciation dialect: General American English;


Recording Information:

Microphone: Logitech Digital USB Headset;
Audio Card: Realtek AC97 Audio;
Audio Recording Software: Audacity rel 1.2.4;
O/S: [operating system]; Windows 2000;


File Info:

File type: wav;
Sampling rate: 48kHz;
Sample rate format: 16bit;
Number of channels: 1;

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Prompts:

The Rainbow Passage

rp001 When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air,
rp002 they act as a prism and form a rainbow.
rp003 The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors.
rp004 These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above,
rp005 and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon.
rp006 There is , according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end.
rp007 People look, but no one ever finds it.
rp008 When a man looks for something beyond his reach,
rp009 his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
rp010 Throughout the centuries people have explained the rainbow in various ways.
rp011 Some have accepted it as a miracle without physical explanation.
rp012 To the Hebrews it was a token that there would be no more universal floods.
rp013 The Greeks used to imagine that it was a sign
rp014 from the gods to foretell war or heavy rain.
rp015 The Norsemen considered the rainbow as a bridge
rp016 over which the gods passed from earth to their home in the sky.
rp017 Others have tried to explain the phenomenon physically.
rp018 Aristotle thought that the rainbow was caused by
rp019 reflection of the sun's rays by the rain.
rp020 Since then physicists have found that it is not reflection,
rp021 but refraction by the raindrops which causes the rainbows.
rp022 Many complicated ideas about the rainbow have been formed.
rp023 The difference in the rainbow depends considerably upon the size of the drops,
rp024 and the width of the colored band increases as the size of the drops increases.
rp025 The actual primary rainbow observed is said to be the effect of
rp026 super-imposition of a number of bows.
rp027 If the red of the second bow falls upon the green of the first,
rp028 the result is to give a bow with an abnormally wide yellow band,
rp029 since red and green light when mixed form yellow.
rp030 This is a very common type of bow, one showing mainly red and yellow,
rp031 with little or no green or blue.

 

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