If you remember back a few months ago I got a odd job as an English language voice actor for some unknown company. Today, knowing the new semester has started "Emmy" (my boss I guess) messaged me again and asked me to record more things for them. Forentually, this time they left their company name with me, SpeechOcean. After scheduling a time I decided to look up SpeechOcean in hopes of figuring out what I signed up for. As it turns out, they have a very nice website selling speech corpora for academics and testing. The question is now, what is speech corpus and what do you do with it? According to Wikipedia, speech corpus is simply a "database of speech audio files and text transcriptions." From their website, SpeechOcean seems to specialize in speech corpus for testing speech recognition software and for use by academics. While after the robots rise to finally enslave humanity and prove the superiority of cybernetic lifeforms my voice might not be the voice of robots' assassination units (the robots have preferred Austrian accents since the T-800, Model 101, Version 2.4) my voice might help the robot interrogates better understand captured human resistance fighters. But until that day, SpeechOcean pays pretty well so I guess I will do more voice acting. I will post an update on Friday after my recording session.
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Dad
2/16/2017 04:34:15 am
Since the T-800 was subsequently replaced by models with west coast American accented male and female voices, the fourth incarnation of the Terminator may just work best rocking your northern NJ twang.
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Sharon
2/16/2017 10:33:23 am
did you have to say " I have a fiancé , he's going to come looking for me ". LOL. That's my favorite line!
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Gramma M
2/17/2017 12:19:33 am
From dumplings to speech recognition actor. You really have had diverse experiences. Just keep it clean and non-sexist.
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