English Speech Files

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mojomove411-20071024
User: kmaclean
Date: 1/23/2008 12:50 pm
Views: 1818
Rating: 15

Speaker Characteristics:

Gender: male
Age range: adult
Pronunciation dialect: New York City and Northern NJ

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

Microphone make: Samson C01U USB Studio Condenser
Microphone type: desktop / boom mic
Audio card make: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE
Audio card type: pci card
Audio Recording Software: Audacity rel 1.3.8 non free livna repo
O/S: Linux Fedora Core 6

File Info:

File type: [wav];
Sampling rate: 44.1kHz
Sample rate format: 16 bit
Number of channels: 1
Audio Processing: n

Prompts:

dos0001 SELECTION FROM NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND BY DOSTOEVSKY
dos0002 READ FOR MOJOMOVE FOUR ONE ONE DOT COM BY ROBERT SCOTT
dos0003 AS PART OF THE VOXFORGE ORG SHORTS WEEKLY MONOLOGUE COLLECTION
dos0004 I AM A SICK MAN I AM A SPITEFUL MAN
dos0005 I AM AN UNATTRACTIVE MAN I BELIEVE MY LIVER IS DISEASED
dos0006 HOWEVER I KNOW NOTHING AT ALL ABOUT MY DISEASE
dos0007 AND DO NOT KNOW FOR CERTAIN WHAT AILS ME
dos0008 I DON'T CONSULT A DOCTOR FOR IT AND NEVER HAVE
dos0009 THOUGH I HAVE A RESPECT FOR MEDICINE AND DOCTORS
dos0010 BESIDES I AM EXTREMELY SUPERSTITIOUS SUFFICIENTLY SO TO RESPECT MEDICINE ANYWAY I
dos0011 AM WELL EDUCATED ENOUGH NOT TO BE SUPERSTITIOUS BUT I AM SUPERSTITIOUS
dos0012 NO I REFUSE TO CONSULT A DOCTOR FROM SPITE
dos0013 THAT YOU PROBABLY WILL NOT UNDERSTAND WELL I UNDERSTAND IT THOUGH
dos0014 OF COURSE I CAN'T EXPLAIN WHO IT IS PRECISELY THAT I AM MORTIFYING IN THIS CASE
dos0015 BY MY SPITE I AM PERFECTLY WELL AWARE THAT I CANNOT PAY OUT THE DOCTORS
dos0016 BY NOT CONSULTING THEM
dos0017 I KNOW BETTER THAN ANYONE THAT BY ALL THIS I AM ONLY INJURING MYSELF
dos0018 AND NO ONE ELSE BUT STILL IF I DON'T CONSULT A DOCTOR IT IS FROM SPITE
dos0019 MY LIVER IS BAD WELL LET IT GET WORSE
dos0020 I HAVE BEEN GOING ON LIKE THAT FOR A LONG TIME
dos0021 TWENTY YEARS NOW I AM FORTY
dos0022 I USED TO BE IN THE GOVERNMENT SERVICE BUT AM NO LONGER
dos0023 I WAS A SPITEFUL OFFICIAL I WAS RUDE AND TOOK PLEASURE IN BEING SO
dos0024 I DID NOT TAKE BRIBES YOU SEE SO I WAS BOUND TO FIND A RECOMPENSE IN THAT AT LEAST
dos0025 A POOR JEST BUT I WILL NOT SCRATCH IT OUT
dos0026 I WROTE IT THINKING IT WOULD SOUND VERY WITTY
dos0027 BUT NOW THAT I HAVE SEEN MYSELF
dos0028 THAT I ONLY WANTED TO SHOW OFF IN A DESPICABLE WAY
dos0029 I WILL NOT SCRATCH IT OUT ON PURPOSE
dos0030 THIS RECORDING IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN 

License:

Copyright (C) 2007 Robert Scott

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.

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--- (Edited on 1/23/2008 1:50 pm [GMT-0500] by kmaclean) ---

--- (Edited on 2/12/2008 12:56 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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