English Speech Files

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ralfherzog-20070913-vf27
User: ralfherzog
Date: 9/13/2007 1:36 pm
Views: 1991
Rating: 10

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

vf27-01 By virtue of that power we shall remain in power
vf27-02 One guess will do, Ernest retorted
vf27-03 Take my advice and accept the vacation
vf27-04 I could not agree with Ernest
vf27-05 But such divergence of opinion would constitute no menace to society
vf27-06 It is dog eat dog, and you ate them up
vf27-07 Let us run them for ourselves
vf27-08 It was introduced by Representative Dick of Ohio
vf27-09 Very few people knew of the existence of this law
vf27-10 The very thing, Ernest agreed
vf27-11 Also a fellow Senator, Chauncey Depew, said
vf27-12 Ernest saw in the affair the most sinister import
vf27-13 Then there was the campaign
vf27-14 He was manifestly distressed by my coming
vf27-15 Not a wheel moved in his empire
vf27-16 The reorganization of these countries took the form of revolution
vf27-17 You're going in for grab sharing
vf27-18 The Oligarchy will encourage such ambition and the consequent competition
vf27-19 Violation of this law was made a high misdemeanor and punished accordingly
vf27-20 Without discussion, it was the agents provocateurs who caused the Peasant Revolt
vf27-21 The task we set ourselves was threefold
vf27-22 Many other similar disconcerting omissions will be noticed in the Manuscript
vf27-23 The flower of the artistic and intellectual world were revolutionists
vf27-24 This the Iron Heel foresaw and laid its schemes accordingly
vf27-25 The mob came on, but it could not advance
vf27-26 But why continue the tirade, for tirade it was
vf27-27 After all superfluous flesh is gone what is left is stringy and resistant
vf27-28 Beyond refusing to sell us food, they left us to ourselves
vf27-29 He was a merry monarch, especially so for an Asiatic
vf27-30 What an excited whispering and conferring took place
vf27-31 Jacob Brinker, who was his roadmate, brought the news
vf27-32 Thus he turned the tenets and jargon of psychology back on me
vf27-33 You yellow giant thing of the frost
vf27-34 Never so strange a prophet came up to Jerusalem
vf27-35 We who have endured so much surely can endure a little more
vf27-36 I have seen myself that one man contemplated by Pascal's philosophic eye
vf27-37 One great drawback to farming in California is our long dry summer
vf27-38 I remembered the red wine of the Italian rancho, and shuddered inwardly
vf27-39 I said, and dismissed the matter as not worth thinking about
vf27-40 Then came my boy code

Copyright (C) 2007  Ralf Herzog

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 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.

This program is distributed in the hope that it 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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--- (Edited on 9/13/2007 1:36 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.

Why did I get a negative rating?
User: ralfherzog
Date: 9/19/2007 12:06 pm
Views: 145
Rating: 14

Hello,

Why did I get a negative rating for my submission?  In my opinion, this submission is acceptable.  But maybe there is someone who could give me a hint.  What is wrong with the submission? Am I speaking too slowly? Is my pronunciation not acceptable?

When I check my submitted audio files with the speech recognition software Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9.1 Preferred, most sentences are recognized correctly.  So please help me to understand why I got a negative rating.

Greetings, Ralf

--- (Edited on 9/19/2007 12:06 pm [GMT-0500] by ralfherzog) ---


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.

Re: Why did I get a negative rating?
User: kmaclean
Date: 9/19/2007 7:09 pm
Views: 336
Rating: 12

Hi Ralph,

I am not sure why you would have received a negative rating either.  I've noticed this has occurred with others too.

For this reason I've changed the rating system so that only registered users can rate a submission.  We'll try this out for a while to see if it makes a difference.

Ken 

--- (Edited on 9/19/2007 8:09 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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