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pumpkinslayer-20071021-iku
User: kmaclean
Date: 10/24/2007 7:07 pm
Views: 911
Rating: 8

User Name:pumpkinslayer

Speaker Characteristics:

Gender: Male
Age Range: Adult
Pronunciation dialect: South African English

Recording Information:

Microphone make: n/a
Microphone type:unknown
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-04 hunt and peck typing using the fingers are pretty much out of the question.
rb-05 Devices with a touch screen interface often use an on-screen keyboard, or handwriting
rb-06 recognition for inputting text. This has a couple of drawbacks.
rb-07 The keyboard, whether it's an on-screen version or not, strongly reduces
rb-08 the amount of available 'screen real-estate'.
rb-09 On top of that thumbing or thumb typing puts a lot of strain on the thumb,
rb-10 which is not as dexterous as the fingers are. A good solution would be to use speech recognition,
rb-11 especially since most of these devices often already have a built-in microphone.
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.

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 10/24/2007 8:07 pm [GMT-0400] 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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