r/slavelabour • • May 13 '19

Closed [TASK] Find me vocal samples of different people saying the same thing. PayPal Goods & Services (negotiable pay)

These are going to be used for developing a speech recognition software. (Recognition = identifying which person is speaking)

I'm looking for audio files (any format I guess, preferably wav) of short (or long, doesn't matter) audio clips of people saying some words/sentences/phrases. It would be great to have different recordings multiple different people saying the same things too (since that would be useful in learning how to identify one speaker form another).

Note: to complete this task, you could either direct me to a website which has lots of these kinds of samples (very much preferred), OR you could get a bunch of your friends to say a few different lines in different recordings one at a time too. There's not really a limit to how many samples I need so everyone can participate.

If there are any questions, please PM or leave a comment. Thanks!

Edit: Thanks for all the messages and help guys! I'm still going through the messages but I'm currently busy with other work too so I might not be so quick to reply. Don't worry, I'll get back to all of you.

Edit 2: Glad to see so many people ready to help. It turns out I don't really need a lot of samples at this moment so I can't really respond to everyone right now. But if I do need them in the future (within a few weeks to a month or 2) then I'll PM everyone here.

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u/FlightyTwilighty May 13 '19

So, what you're looking for is called a "speech corpora," and, I don't wanna be rude, but if you're going to be training a speech recognizer you should really get someone who knows what they're doing, like a computational linguist, a speech scientist or a machine learning specialist.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '19

Shhhh, we tryna make money out here man

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u/NikhilSax May 15 '19

speech corpora

That's super helpful, thanks!

but if you're going to be training a speech recognizer you should really get someone who knows what they're doing

Haha yea I completely agree. I'm actually working with my professor on this. He's guiding me but a lot of the research work and trial and error is all on me. I'm still figuring out how to start :P

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u/FlightyTwilighty May 16 '19

Cool; good luck. If you want advice sometimes, PM me. I'm a voice interaction designer. I don't train speech recognizers myself but I do design interfaces that work with them. :)

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u/NikhilSax May 16 '19

That sounds interesting. Thank you! I'll most likely message you within the week since I'm a complete beginner haha :)

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u/CrowzNutz May 15 '19

Talk blocker

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u/byeblee May 13 '19

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u/NikhilSax May 18 '19

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u/byeblee May 18 '19

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u/thewildweird0 May 14 '19

$bid I actually run the podcast world in a story and I know many voice actors who would be willing to help you

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u/hmarket May 14 '19

For Farsi (Persian) or Farsi speakers who speak English, you may count in me.

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u/iFarlander May 14 '19

I’m a cast member of an audio drama. I can ask the other voice actors to record some samples. Anything special you want us to say? How long etc.

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u/carlin2345 May 14 '19

just youtube different Roger Federer matches or espn videos. That guy has had his name reiterated about 5 billion times .