WANTED: Native speakers for voice recording sessions

[Orange Boat]

We are conducting research on speech recognition software on behalf of a consulting company.

We need to collect about 200 samples / recordings of speech patterns.

We are looking for volunteers who would be willing to record their voice for research purposes.

The volunteers need to be British/ born & raised in the UK. No regional accents.

The recording session lasts up to 45 minutes and includes reading of 350 short sentences.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you want to help us and receive ?25 for recording.

We are based in East Dulwich and would like to collect samples mainly in the area,

but if you have friends who would like to participate in other locations, we are more than happy to arrange a meeting.

Many thanks for your help and we look forward to hearing from you!

Please contact me via PM

Monica

[tallulah71]

Hi that sounds interesting. What do you mean by regional accents though?

[Help-Ma-Boab]

Yeah im confused by no regional accents - how can that be if the cohort are British born and raised? Going to be a whole host of regional accents from Scotland to wales onto England via Northern Ireland.

ETA: The importance of regional accents in voice recognition!