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Thank you, I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Mariane

The radio podcasts I found are too polite, people don't say "hum!" in negative ways. I found quite a few "agreement hum", though. If you know of any impolite ones please let me know. If someone recorded a normal conversation containing a disagreement (or a mock quarrel) and sent ...

If you say gullible v-e-r-y slowly, it sounds like "green beans" :lol: :D --Hazel No it doesnt..... Edit: oh :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: rotfl!!!! I can't believe someone fell for that. --Hazel The dictionary says it sounds [guhl-uh-buhl] but I can't parse that to any other meaning...??? Ma...

It does "die" but it doesn't understand "good boy".

Mariane

Thank you

Mariane

I try to discriminate between different types of hums. There are fillers, such as - "I think it's rather... hum... unusual" When someone just hums to indicate he/she is looking in his mind for the next word, it means "wait, I haven't finished speaking". There are agreements - &qu...

That's not so good for me... But thanks for letting me know all the same .

Would you know any dialogue which includes "hum"-like expressions in a recorded book, please?

Mariane

In some books there are dialogues, and these can include hmms etc., it this is what the author wrote.

Mariane

You can also get one terabyte external hard disk for about 200 euros now. This is the best backup solution as it can be put online (while DVDs cannot unless they are kept in the drive). You need someone with some apache experience, though, it is not trivial. Maybe Cambridge University would be willi...

Hi, Could someone please tell me whether there are real dialogues in the librivox databases? It is easy to find some online (interviews, discussions...) but they are mostly in mp3 or eventually ogg. I am looking for uncompressed wav. Spontaneous would be fine for my purpose, but a well acted dialogu...

Hi, I'm a computer scientist currently working for CADIA in Reykjavik University. Natural speech communication is one of the objectives of my lab ("natural speech" means being able to talk to computers using an unconstrained vocabulary, as if you were talking to another human). Mariane