Speaker Characteristics:

Gender: [male];
Age range: [adult];
Pronunciation dialect: [Canadian English]

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

Microphone make: [Olympus WS-300M];
Microphone type: [built-in mic];
Audio card make: [];
Audio card type: []
Audio Recording Software: [];
O/S: [].

File Info:

File type: [wav];
Sampling rate: [44.1kHz];
Sample rate format: [16];
Number of channels: [1];
Audio Processing: [y] (we prefer, but *do not require*, unprocessed audio)
If yes, please describe: [conversion from wma to wav]

Prompts:

cc-01 WELL HERE'S A STORY FOR YOU SARAH PERRY WAS A VETERINARY NURSE
cc-02 WHO HAD BEEN WORKING DAILY AT AN OLD ZOO IN A DESERTED DISTRICT OF THE TERRITORY
cc-03 SO SHE WAS VERY HAPPY TO START A NEW JOB AT A SUPERB PRIVATE PRACTICE
cc-04 IN NORTH SQUARE NEAR THE DUKE STREET TOWER
cc-05 THAT AREA WAS MUCH NEARER FOR HER AND MORE TO HER LIKING
cc-06 EVEN SO ON HER FIRST MORNING SHE FELT STRESSED
cc-07 SHE ATE A BOWL OF PORRIDGE CHECKED HERSELF IN THE MIRROR
cc-08 AND WASHED HER FACE IN A HURRY THEN SHE PUT ON A PLAIN YELLOW DRESS
cc-09 AND A FLEECE JACKET PICKED UP HER KIT AND HEADED FOR WORK
cc-10 WHEN SHE GOT THERE THERE WAS A WOMAN WITH A GOOSE WAITING FOR HER
cc-11 THE WOMAN GAVE SARAH AN OFFICIAL LETTER FROM THE VET
cc-12 THE LETTER IMPLIED THAT THE ANIMAL COULD BE SUFFERING FROM A RARE FORM
cc-13 OF FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE WHICH WAS SURPRISING
cc-14 BECAUSE NORMALLY YOU WOULD ONLY EXPECT TO SEE IT IN A DOG OR A GOAT
cc-15 SARAH WAS SENTIMENTAL SO THIS MADE HER FEEL SORRY FOR THE BEAUTIFUL BIRD
cc-16 BEFORE LONG THAT ITCHY GOOSE BEGAN TO STRUT AROUND THE OFFICE LIKE A LUNATIC
cc-17 WHICH MADE AN UNSANITARY MESS
cc-18 THE GOOSE'S OWNER MARY HARRISON KEPT CALLING COMMA COMMA
cc-19 WHICH SARAH THOUGHT WAS AN ODD CHOICE FOR A NAME
cc-20 COMMA WAS STRONG AND HUGE SO IT WOULD TAKE SOME FORCE TO TRAP HER
cc-21 BUT SARAH HAD A DIFFERENT IDEA
cc-22 FIRST SHE TRIED GENTLY STROKING THE GOOSE'S LOWER BACK WITH HER PALM
cc-23 THEN SINGING A TUNE TO HER FINALLY SHE ADMINISTERED ETHER
cc-24 HER EFFORTS WERE NOT FUTILE IN NO TIME THE GOOSE BEGAN TO TIRE
cc-25 SO SARAH WAS ABLE TO HOLD ONTO COMMA AND GIVE HER A RELAXING BATH
cc-26 ONCE SARAH HAD MANAGED TO BATHE THE GOOSE SHE WIPED HER OFF WITH A CLOTH
cc-27 AND LAID HER ON HER RIGHT SIDE THEN SARAH CONFIRMED THE VET'S DIAGNOSIS
cc-28 ALMOST IMMEDIATELY SHE REMEMBERED AN EFFECTIVE TREATMENT
cc-29 THAT REQUIRED HER TO MEASURE OUT A LOT OF MEDICINE
cc-30 SARAH WARNED THAT THIS COURSE OF TREATMENT MIGHT BE EXPENSIVE
cc-31 EITHER FIVE OR SIX TIMES THE COST OF PENICILLIN
cc-32 I CAN'T IMAGINE PAYING SO MUCH BUT MRS HARRISON A MILLIONAIRE LAWYER
cc-33 THOUGHT IT WAS A FAIR PRICE FOR A CURE
cc-34 COMMA GETS A CURE AND DERIVATIVE WORKS MAY BE USED FREELY FOR ANY PURPOSE
cc-35 WITHOUT SPECIAL PERMISSION PROVIDED THE PRESENT SENTENCE
cc-36 AND THE FOLLOWING COPYRIGHT NOTIFICATION ACCOMPANY THE PASSAGE IN PRINT
cc-37 IF REPRODUCED IN PRINT AND IN AUDIO FORMAT IN THE CASE OF A SOUND RECORDING
cc-38 COPYRIGHT TWO THOUSAND DOUGLAS N HONOROF JILL MCCULLOUGH AND BARBARA SOMERVILLE
cc-39 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

License:

Copyright (C) 2008 Mathys Walma

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.

Notes:

Original submission was in stereo and at 32bitfloat bits-per-sample.  Converted the audio to mono, 16bits-per-sample and reduced leading and trailing silence to about 1 second.  This reduced the submission size considerably from 69.5meg to 14.8meg.

Ken 

--- (Edited on 1/23/2008 1:39 pm [GMT-0500] by kmaclean) ---

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