Speaker Characteristics:
 
Gender: male;
Age range: adult;
Language: EN;
Pronunciation dialect: West.
 
Recording Information:
 
Microphone make: audio-technica ATR30;
Microphone type: desktop boom mic;
Audio card make: Audigy 2 Platinum;
Audio card type: pci card
Audio Recording Software: Audacity rel 1.3.4-beta;
O/S: Unbuntu 8.04.
 
File Info: 
 
File type: WAV;
Sampling rate: 48kHz;
Sample rate format: 16bit;
Number of channels: 1;
Audio Processing: n
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Copyright (C) 2008  slaveofone

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Transcriptions:

*/ar-01 Once there was a young rat named Arthur who never could make up his mind.
*/ar-02 Whenever his friends asked him if he would like to go out with them,
*/ar-03 he would only answer, "I don't know;" he wouldn't say yes or no either.
*/ar-04 He would always shirk making a choice. His Aunt Helen said to him,
*/ar-05 "Now look here! No one is going to care for you if you carry on like this.
*/ar-06 You have no more mind than a blade of grass."
*/ar-07 One rainy day the rats heard a great noise in the loft.
*/ar-08 The pine rafters were all rotten, so that the barn was rather unsafe.
*/ar-09 At last the joists gave way and fell to the ground.
*/ar-10 The walls shook, and all the rats' hair stood on end with fear and horror.
*/ar-11 "This won't do," said the captain; "I'll send out scouts to search for a new home."
*/ar-12 Within five hours the ten scouts came back and said,
*/ar-13 "We found a stone house where there is room for us all.
*/ar-14 There is a kindly horse named Nelly, a cow, a calf, and a garden with an elm tree."
*/ar-15 The rats crawled out of their little houses and stood on the floor in a long line.
*/ar-16 Just then the old rat saw Arthur. Stop. he ordered coarsely.
*/ar-17 "You are coming, of course." "I'm not certain," said Arthur, undaunted,
*/ar-18 "The roof may not come down yet."
*/ar-19 "Well," said the old rat, "we can't wait for you to join us. Right about face! March!"
*/ar-20 Arthur stood and watched them hurry away.
*/ar-21 "I think I'll go tomorrow," he said calmly to himself, "but then again I don't know;
*/ar-22 it's so nice and snug here,". That night there was a big crash.
*/ar-23 In the foggy morning some men with some boys and girls rode up and looked at the barn.
*/ar-24 One of them moved a board and saw a rat quite dead, half in and half out of his hole.

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