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Shall I Compare Thee (voice)

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Speedenza

July 24th, 2015

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I also assert full ownership over the likeness rights in my own voice.

Male voice reading Shakespeare's famous Sonnet 18 (Shall I Compare Thee).
This was the source vocal for the previous robot version.
Someone asked if I'd upload this, so here it is. Condenser mic and PC - slight processing. Downloaded version sounds clearer.

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british
english
male
poem
poetry
shakespeare
sonnet
speak
speech
voice
voiceover

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

1:00.743

File size

7.7 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

24 bit

Channels

Mono

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jcameron

4 months ago

Beautiful man !

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alphatone

7 years, 5 months ago

Hello Speedenza. I mixed your reading of this sonnet into a song I plan to use as a soundtrack for one of my family home movies. You can find it here. Let me know if you would like any information added to the attribution.

https://soundcloud.com/tony-teofilo-818625739/a-summers-day

Best,
Papa Tone

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OAB2305

7 years, 8 months ago

Greetings I personally wanted to let you know me and my production team plan to use these vocals for a commercial we shall include you in the credits - we've reversed the vocals to give the impression that's its a ancient dialect. We shall inform you once the commercial goes live

thanks

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alliha

8 years, 6 months ago

Added a simple beat to this, sorry for changing the pace of how it's read though...

https://soundcloud.com/alliha/shall-i-compare-thee

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aaronzyha

9 years, 3 months ago

love these vocals! i downloaded most of them. keep em coming :D

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