English Speech Files

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ttm-20071024
User: speechsubmission
Date: 2/1/2008 3:02 am
Views: 1443
Rating: 20
Speaker Characteristics:

Gender: Male
Age range: Adult
Pronunciation dialect: Mid-Atlantic

Recording Information:

Microphone make: KEL-HM4
Microphone type: Studio XLR
Audio card make: Edirol UA-25
Audio card type: USB
Audio Recording Software: Adobe Audition 2.0
O/S: Windows Vista

File Info:

File type: [wav],
Sampling rate: 44.1KHz
Sample rate format: 16
Number of channels: 1
Audio Processing: Aphex 230 before conversion

Processing Instructions:

Update WebGUI Forum: y

Prompts:

dos0001 SELECTION FROM NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND BY DOSTOEVSKY
dos0002 READ FOR MOJOMOVE FOUR ONE ONE DOT COM BY M L COHEN
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 AND DO NOT KNOW FOR CERTAIN WHAT AILS ME
dos0007 I DON'T CONSULT A DOCTOR FOR IT AND NEVER HAVE
dos0008 THOUGH I HAVE A RESPECT FOR MEDICINE AND DOCTORS ANYWAY
dos0009 I AM WELL EDUCATED ENOUGH NOT TO BE SUPERSTITIOUS BUT I AM SUPERSTITIOUS
dos0010 NO I REFUSE TO CONSULT A DOCTOR FROM SPITE
dos0011 THAT YOU PROBABLY WILL NOT UNDERSTAND WELL I UNDERSTAND IT THOUGH
dos0012 OF COURSE I CAN'T EXPLAIN WHO IT IS PRECISELY THAT I AM MORTIFYING IN THIS CASE IN MY SPITE
dos0013 I AM PERFECTLY WELL AWARE THAT I CANNOT PAY OUT THE DOCTORS BY NOT CONSULTING THEM
dos0014 I KNOW BETTER THAN ANYONE
dos0015 THAT BY ALL THIS I AM ONLY INJURING MYSELF AND NO ONE ELSE
dos0016 BUT STILL IF I DON'T CONSULT A DOCTOR IT IS FROM SPITE
dos0017 MY LIVER IS BAD WELL LET IT GET WORSE
dos0018 I HAVE BEEN GOING ON LIKE THAT FOR A LONG TIME
dos0019 TWENTY YEARS NOW I AM FORTY
dos0020 I USED TO BE IN THE GOVERNMENT SERVICE BUT AM NO LONGER
dos0021 I WAS A SPITEFUL OFFICIAL I WAS RUDE AND TOOK PLEASURE IN BEING SO
dos0022 I DID NOT TAKE BRIBES YOU SEE SO I WAS BOUND TO FIND A RECOMPENSE IN THAT AT LEAST
dos0023 A POOR JEST BUT I WILL NOT SCRATCH IT OUT
dos0024 I WROTE IT THINKING IT WOULD SOUND VERY WITTY BUT NOW THAT I HAVE SEEN MYSELF THAT I ONLY WANTED TO SHOW OFF IN A DESPICABLE WAY
dos0025 I WILL NOT SCRATCH IT OUT ON PURPOSE THIS RECORDING
dos0026 IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

License:

Copyright (C) 2007 ML Cohen

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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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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