"Tim Martin" wrote in message
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Lots of BBC output has natural-sounding voice.


And lots of it isn't.....

As Don says, avoid famous 'voice artists' like Anthony Hopkins and Richard
Burton and try and get hold of summat recorded by the late, great Ralph
Richardson. I always felt his speech was less strained and much less
affected than many of his kind.

There's plenty of material available (mostly poetry); all I have are the
supercriptions to each movement of a 'work' from which I have recorded this
extract - it has a few lines of speech at the beginning and 6m 52s before
the end:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/rrspeechclip.mp3

(7m 44s long - 14.5 Mb)

Now, the thing is....

'Name that tune!'

(Clue: A celebration of one of the most splendid 'losers' this country has
ever seen.... ;-)

NP (or will be in a few minutes - on an 80 inch screen): 'Shi mian mai
fu'...

:-)