English Speech Files

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mfread-10112006-1, Correct
User: mfread
Date: 10/11/2006 7:39 pm
Views: 1034
Rating: 18

Speaker Characteristics:

Gender: male;
Age range: adult;
Pronunciation dialect: General American English;


Recording Information:

Microphone: Logitech Digital USB Headset;
Audio Card: Realtek AC97 Audio;
Audio Recording Software: Audacity rel 1.2.4;
O/S: [operating system]; Windows 2000;


File Info:

File type: wav;
Sampling rate: 48kHz;
Sample rate format: 16bit;
Number of channels: 1;Copyright (C) 2006  Michael Fread

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Prompts:

Arthur the Rat
ar001 Once there was a young rat named Arthur who never could make up his mind.
ar002 Whenever his friends asked him if he would like to go out with them,
ar003 he would only answer, "I don't know;" he wouldn't say yes or no either.
ar004 He would always shirk making a choice. His Aunt Helen said to him,
ar005 "Now look here! No one is going to care for you if you carry on like this.
ar006 You have no more mind than a blade of grass."
ar007 One rainy day the rats heard a great noise in the loft.
ar008 The pine rafters were all rotten, so that the barn was rather unsafe.
ar009 At last the joists gave way and fell to the ground.
ar010 The walls shook, and all the rats' hair stood on end with fear and horror.
ar011 "This won't do," said the captain; "I'll send out scouts to search for a new home."
ar012 Within five hours the ten scouts came back and said,
ar013 "We found a stone house where there is room for us all.
ar014 There is a kindly horse named Nelly, a cow, a calf, and a garden with an elm tree."
ar015 The rats crawled out of their little houses and stood on the floor in a long line.
ar016 Just then the old rat saw Arthur. Stop. he ordered coarsely.
ar017 "You are coming, of course." "I'm not certain," said Arthur, undaunted,
ar018 "The roof may not come down yet."
ar019 "Well," said the old rat, "we can't wait for you to join us. Right about face! March!"
ar020 Arthur stood and watched them hurry away.
ar021 "I think I'll go tomorrow," he said calmly to himself, "but then again I don't know;
ar022 it's so nice and snug here,".  That night there was a big crash.
ar023 In the foggy morning some men with some boys and girls rode up and looked at the barn.
ar024 One of them moved a board and saw a rat quite dead, half in and half out of his hole. --- (Edited on 10/11/2006 7:39 pm [GMT-0500] by mfread) --- --- (Edited on 10/12/2006 3:29 pm [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.

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