"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Charles C. wrote:
I will soon start looking for loudspeakers. Does anyone have any idea
where I could find a CD with just speech to use as part of the audition?

Record a copy of the Archers off R4. It's recorded in an old fashioned way
- ie no heavy compression or overdone EQ.

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How come an everyday story of countryfolk escape entry to the excessive knob
twiddlers & dynamics flatteners society?

Mike

In article ,
Mike Gilmour wrote:
Record a copy of the Archers off R4. It's recorded in an old fashioned
way - ie no heavy compression or overdone EQ.

How come an everyday story of countryfolk escape entry to the excessive
knob twiddlers & dynamics flatteners society?

Dunno. I usually listen to it in the car on the way home from work and
always have to turn the radio up. Which is a good sign. ;-)

I'd say it's such an institution that those who make it are left well
alone by the suits.

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Lots of BBC output has natural-sounding voice.

For those unaware, much of the radio output can be heard on internet up to a
week after broadcast, at www.bbc.co.uk

Tim

"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'...

:-)

Charles C. wrote:
Hi,

I will soon start looking for loudspeakers. Does anyone have any idea
where I could find a CD with just speech to use as part of the audition?

Any other tips welcome ;-)

The speakers are to be connected to a NAD 320BEE and 521BEE as the source.

Regards
Charles



Thank you all for your advice. I will have to go searching now :-)

Regards
Charles

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


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


Ah; I was thinking of discussion programs, the news, etc; not actors!

Tim

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


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


Ah; I was thinking of discussion programs, the news, etc; not actors!


Jeez, I don't know where you come from but here in East Anglia the (local)
news and weather forecasts in particular are the last place to hear a
'natural voice'! (Our nickname for the superfast, nasal Look East weather
bimbo is 'Zippee'!!)

Not to mention pronunciation either - 'golf war', 'eeeconomic',
'eeelectricity', 'eeelections', 'hoe-moe-sexuality' and 'pronounciation'
just for starters....!!

"Keith G" wrote in message
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Not to mention pronunciation either - 'golf war', 'eeeconomic',
'eeelectricity', 'eeelections', 'hoe-moe-sexuality' and 'pronounciation'
just for starters....!!

I don't see that accents and pronunciation are relevant for speaker testing.
The aim is to assess whether the loudspeaker matches one's concept of
"natural sound", not whether the human speaker matches one's concept of
"natural sound".

Tim

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Mike Gilmour wrote:
Record a copy of the Archers off R4. It's recorded in an old fashioned
way - ie no heavy compression or overdone EQ.

How come an everyday story of countryfolk escape entry to the excessive
knob twiddlers & dynamics flatteners society?

Dunno. I usually listen to it in the car on the way home from work and
always have to turn the radio up. Which is a good sign. ;-)

I'd say it's such an institution that those who make it are left well
alone by the suits.

Pretty much spot on.

It's produced at The BBC's Birmingham Studios and, especially where the
archers are concerned, they've been doing things their own way since the
1950's - if William Smethurst's Book "The Archers" is to be believed.




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