Part 1. Reference speech reconstruction

1.

Text:

Now unless the sandbank had been submitted to the intermittent eruption of a geyser the Governor Higginson had to do neither more nor less than with an aquatic mammal unknown till then which threw up from its blow holes columns of water mixed with air and vapour.

Reference Audio:

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4 2.77
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16 5.54
32 6.93
64 8.31

2.

Text:

Had it not been for the superior strength of the hull of the Moravian she would have been broken by the shock and gone down with the 237 passengers she was bringing home from Canada.

Reference Audio:

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32 6.93
64 8.31

3.

Text:

This fact so grave in itself might perhaps have been forgotten like many others if three weeks after it had not been re enacted under similar circumstances.

Reference Audio:

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32 6.93
64 8.31

4.

Text:

She was then three hundred miles from Cape Clear and after three days delay which caused great uneasiness in Liverpool she entered the basin of the company.

Reference Audio:

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64 8.31

5.

Text:

It was clear then that the instrument producing the perforation was not of a common stamp and after having been driven with prodigious strength and piercing an iron plate 1 three eighths inches thick had withdrawn itself by a backward motion.

Reference Audio:

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32 6.93
64 8.31

1.

Text:

for of three thousand ships whose loss was annually recorded at Lloyd's the number of sailing and steam ships supposed to be totally lost from the absence of all news amounted to not less than two hundred!

Reference Audio:

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64 8.31

Part 2. Cross Text Prosody transfer

1.

Text of the generated speech:

I recognised some euphorbias with the caustic sugar coming from them;

Reference Audio:

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4 2.77
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16 5.54
32 6.93
64 8.31

2.

Text of the generated speech:

and in twenty four that contained in 480 gallons.

Reference Audio:

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4 2.77
8 4.16
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32 6.93
64 8.31

3.

Text of the generated speech:

Are these cetaceans as large as those of the northern seas?

Reference Audio:

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4 2.77
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64 8.31

4.

Text of the generated speech:

Such talent as hers must not be suffered to remain unknown.

Reference Audio:

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2 1.39
4 2.77
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32 6.93
64 8.31

5.

Text of the generated speech:

Emma felt that Mrs. Weston was giving her a momentary glance;

Reference Audio:

dictionary size capacity Audio
0 0
2 1.39
4 2.77
8 4.16
16 5.54
32 6.93
64 8.31