Sound Recordings of People Talking (Not Reading, Not Plays, Not Lectures)?
October 7, 2004 10:51 PM Subscribe
I am looking for sound recordings (preferably available online) of a person/persons talking. No reading, no poetry, no spoken word, no plays, no lectures. Just ordinary, everyday talking. Single person rambling preferred, but conversations are okay.
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posted by SNACKeR at 5:45 AM on October 8, 2004
posted by SNACKeR at 5:45 AM on October 8, 2004
Depending on the purpose, either the "Please call Stella" Speech accent archive or English contrasted may be of interest. Another from New Zealand. There's another I can't find at the moment which had people from all over the UK talking about life Back In The Day. That was entirely rambling. I am pretty sure it was linked from Metafilter, and think it might have been on NPR.
posted by whatzit at 5:57 AM on October 8, 2004
posted by whatzit at 5:57 AM on October 8, 2004
Another thing you might try is the audio archives over at Archive.org.
posted by TuxHeDoh at 7:06 AM on October 8, 2004
posted by TuxHeDoh at 7:06 AM on October 8, 2004
If you go to my page, audible frequency and do a search for talking a bunch of posts pop up and each has a sound recording (or several) of talking.
posted by alicila at 7:47 AM on October 8, 2004
posted by alicila at 7:47 AM on October 8, 2004
Some of the Quiet American field recordings have talking in them.
posted by sad_otter at 12:01 PM on October 8, 2004
posted by sad_otter at 12:01 PM on October 8, 2004
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posted by XiBe at 2:28 AM on October 8, 2004