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Rhirwen Posted 21 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Phonetic Transcriptions

Hello everyone!

I am in my third year of English at University, and am looking to a career in teaching English. As part of my education, one of my classes require me to do a phonetic transcription of three different speakers whose first language is English. Unfortunately because of my location limitations (doing correspondance course), I am unable to to find live people with different speech patterns. I would be very grateful if anyone would like to help me out. All I need is a recording (.wav file) of you reading a short paragraph in your normal relaxed voice. As I said before, I would be very very grateful if anyone could help me out. Please reply if you would be interested in helping.

Thanks,
Michelle

PS.
The paragraph which I need read is as follows:
"The fact that Henry Armstrong was buried did not seem to him to prove that he was dead: he had always been a hard man to convince. That he really was buried, the testimony of his senses compelled him to admit. His posture -- flat upon his back, with his hands crossed upon his stomach and tied with something that he easily broke without profitably altering the situation -- the strict confinement of his entire person, the black darkness and profound silence, made a body of evidence impossible to controvert and he accepted it without cavil.
But dead -- no; he was only very, very ill. He had, withal, the invalid's apathy and did not greatly concern himself about the uncommon fate that had been allotted to him. No philosopher was he -- just a plain, commonplace person gifted, for the time being, with a pathological indifference: the organ that he feared consequences with was torpid. So, with no particular apprehension for his immediate future, he fell asleep and all was peace with Henry Armstrong.
But something was going on overhead. It was a dark summer night, shot through with infrequent shimmers of lightning silently firing a cloud lying low in the west and portending a storm. These brief, stammering illuminations brought out with ghastly distinctness the monuments and headstones of the cemetery and seemed to set them dancing."
  
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