Thread: Audio texts exchange proposal

Is there a site in the Internet where one can download some simple texts in English, read by British narrators (like fairy tales or something like that)? If there isn't, I can offer you the following exchange: if some of you is prepared to record some texts at home and send them to me, I could record a text of your choice and send it to you (and -- YES! -- i am a professional narrator).
Thank you in advance.

I could read some stuff in a British accent

Must it be a British accent?
Will an American accent suffice?

I can do both equally well.

a British accent

You may find this link interesting: http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/index.shtml - you get a map and can listen to voices of the British Isles. Have a listen to Kev Duke or Laurence Westgaph or Stuart Richardson. Interseting.

Thanks to you all. I will visit the link you have given, however, i need the texts for teaching purposes on the very "beginner's" level, and i dont think the BBC texts will do. What i need is some fairy tales for children. But I promice texts of any level of complexity in return.

By the way, if you ARE interested in this form of cooperation, feel free to write to my personal message box. And if you want to hear a sample of my reading, here is where to click

ibolit there is some stuff in here http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids.htm also the http://www.bbc.co.uk host a lot of English learning material.

btw - Your narration is very clear, do you have the text for your demo.mp3?

Mike

Thanks for the good words about my narration. As for the text, i will have to look for it, but on another computer. But, if my narration is clear, why do you need the text? And it is not the full version of the text.
I will have the chance to look for it on Tuesday.
And thanks for the links.

For some reasons, I cannot open www.britishcouncil.org. I've found lots of links to it, but none of them worked. I hope it is not a permanent error in my network or computer.

Originally Posted by ibolit

For some reasons, I cannot open www.britishcouncil.org. I've found lots of links to it, but none of them worked. I hope it is not a permanent error in my network or computer.

There's a period at the end of your link and that's why you can't open it.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/

The problem was not with the period. I tried to follow some links to it from other sites (includinb bbc.co.uk) but they didnt work. However, it did open today! Hey-ho!
By the way, where can i download a codec for the *.ra files?

You need to have Realplayer installed to be able to read these files.

Originally Posted by ibolit

By the way, where can i download a codec for the *.ra files?

Use UCF's Real7ime Converter to download it in wav or mp3 format.