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Speaker Characteristics:
Gender: male;
Age range: adult;
Pronunciation dialect: General American English.
Recording Information:
Microphone make: Sennheiser PC 131;
Microphone type: noise canceling headset;
Audio card make: Andrea USB adapter;
Audio card type: USB;
Audio Recording Software: Audacity 1.2.6;
O/S: Windows XP Professional.
File Info:
File type: FLAC;
Sampling rate: 48kHz;
Sample rate format: 16bit;
Number of channels: 1;
Audio Processing: no
en5-01 How are they going to do that?
en5-02 There is something wrong with her.
en5-03 He is not going to believe what she found out.
en5-04 You are the one I want to be with.
en5-05 We will get there.
en5-06 What do you want to know?
en5-07 What is going on with you?
en5-08 They are always together.
en5-09 I can't believe he would do that.
en5-10 I will catch up with you later.
en5-11 What planet is he from?
en5-12 You are going to take all this garbage.
en5-13 That is the credit card company.
en5-14 High school is supposed to be fun.
en5-15 This has been measured in parts per million.
en5-16 He doesn't feel like a stranger.
en5-17 He will figure something out.
en5-18 What is he going to do now?
en5-19 He is going to pay for that.
en5-20 He can't believe she talked to the office yesterday.
en5-21 She is happy for him.
en5-22 This is no environment for a child.
en5-23 So there is no chance of you going to that place.
en5-24 It is a pretty big deal.
en5-25 She hopes they can still be friends.
en5-26 Can I come in? Is everything OK?
en5-27 He had a feeling he would see her here.
en5-28 What is she saying? What is going on?
en5-29 He wants to say to her what he wishes his parents had said to him.
en5-30 It was worth it just to see him.
en5-31 He might not call.
en5-32 He doesn't know what else to do.
en5-33 It is not easy to forget.
en5-34 This doesn't make any sense.
en5-35 He was trying to be honest.
en5-36 Her mom gave it to her. It is her getaway car.
en5-37 I got a plane to catch.
en5-38 That doesn't make any sense.
en5-39 He has to admit it sounds kind of strange.
en5-40 I could be wearing a wire.
en5-41 He is not part of the family.
en5-42 She can't imagine what he thinks about her.
en5-43 Breakfast is ready. My father left early.
en5-44 This was a lot of years ago.
en5-45 You have to leave me here.
en5-46 He won't talk to me.
en5-47 It is about how she feels.
en5-48 He is just going to hang up.
en5-49 He is not charging that on our company card.
en5-50 What is going on with you?
en5-51 Don't forget your lunch.
en5-52 What is that supposed to mean?
en5-53 I don't care what he wants.
en5-54 His neighbors have started to refer to his home.
en5-55 Can we convince you to stay?
en5-56 Do you think you can find your way home?
en5-57 He wanted to apologize.
en5-58 This is the story of his life.
en5-59 He wishes he could explain but he can't.
en5-60 He just hopes she is all right.
en5-61 His office remains his office.
en5-62 She told him to stop feeling sorry for himself.
en5-63 What is going on in here?
en5-64 He never realized how easy it would be to get everything.
en5-65 Didn't she tell him she didn't want to split?
en5-66 She doesn't understand. Why is he doing this?
en5-67 He will call security.
en5-68 He has got no idea who he is dealing with.
en5-69 He has never seen her before.
en5-70 He apologizes for the interruption.
en5-71 He knows they could use the cash.
en5-72 I appreciate your concern, but we are going to work this out.
en5-73 Is he sure this is the right thing to do?
en5-74 She tells him to find his destiny.
en5-75 His parents don't understand him.
en5-76 What is going on?
en5-77 They are the ones who have been trying to protect him.
en5-78 It has changed his personality.
en5-79 He wishes she could hear herself for just a minute.
en5-80 Is there a problem here?
en5-81 Why don't you get us some drinks?
en5-82 I will be right back.
en5-83 That is why she decided to come here.
en5-84 This place is great.
en5-85 To prevent this, you should protect the volume.
en5-86 She is sure this schedule is fine.
en5-87 She has an assignment for him.
en5-88 He has great test scores.
en5-89 Does he have a favorite subject?
en5-90 She put this schedule together for him.
en5-91 He will manage his portfolio online.
en5-92 She doesn't want to hurt him.
en5-93 He thought she were going to take them.
en5-94 They will be out of kitchen by dinner.
en5-95 They don't have to hug or anything.
--- (Edited on 9/13/2007 5:56 pm [GMT-0500] by ralfherzog) ---
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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. |
Hi Ralf,
Thanks again for your last two submissions!
If you are looking for inspiration for creating your own prompts, we are looking for sentences containing technology words (i.e. computer, LAN, WAN, network, hard drive, etc...). The current prompt set was created using out-of-copyright Gutenberg texts - which means there are no references to current technology.
Robin came up with the following (which you can use or might find helpful in creating your own) a while back:
Hand-held devices such as personal digital assistants and smartphones are quite small.
Most of them use either a touch screen interface or a miniaturized keyboard for user input.
Built-in keyboards are usually operated with the thumbs, since touch typing and hunt and peck typing using the fingers are pretty much out of the question.
Devices with a touch screen interface often use an on-screen keyboard, or handwriting recognition for inputting text.
This has a couple of drawbacks.
The keyboard, whether it's an on-screen version or not, strongly reduces the amount of available 'screen real-estate'. On top of that thumbing or thumb typing puts a lot of strain on the thumb, which is not as dexterous as the fingers are. A good solution would be to use speech recognition, especially since most of these devices often already have a built-in microphone. Many phones already offer the possibility of so-called voice dialing. A major stumbling block is the still limited computing power of these phones. One way to deal with this is to use only a limited number of available commands. That way the software only needs to compare the voice input with a small number of possible options.
Modern computers have far more computing power than hand-held devices. That means that when a programmer wants to write speech recognition software, it is necessary to keep in mind on which hardware the software will run. A full-blown computer offers a programmer the freedom to develop software that allows the end user to issue a wider array of commands. In practice this will allow end users to issue commands such as “go to previous paragraph”, “go up one paragraph”, or even “I want to edit the previous paragraph”. Where all these commands might lead to the same result on that powerful PC, the software on a hand-held device might only respond to one specific command.
The same would be the case for other tasks such as browsing the Web, searching for documents in the file browser, and starting or closing programs. Therefore, behind your PC, “go online”, “start my Web browser”, or “visit my home page”, might all be valid commands, whereas on your mobile phone you would have to stick to “run browser”. Obviously, when running a file browser the same logic would apply. When working on a powerful PC or laptop commands like “go to the folder with my University documents and open my thesis”, might soon be quite common. It is however likely that on mobile devices we will have to use more rudimentary commands like “go up one folder”, “open the folder University”, or “open document thesis”.
thanks,
Ken
--- (Edited on 9/14/2007 9:29 am [GMT-0400] by kmaclean) ---
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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. |
--- (Edited on 9/15/2007 8:12 am [GMT-0500] by ralfherzog) ---
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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. |
