Take part
Add your voice: read the script below into your phone. It takes a couple of minutes. Your recording is published with the results, without your name or anything else about you.
How to record
- Find a quiet room, open Voice Memos (iPhone) or Recorder (Android), press record, and hold the phone about 2-3 inches from your mouth, with the bottom of the phone closest to your mouth.
- Keep it there the whole time.
- Wait two seconds, then read the lines below at your normal pace, pausing briefly after each one.
- If you stumble, just keep going.
What to read
- Good morning.
- What's the weather like in London today?
- And what about Sunday?
- Set a timer for ten minutes.
- Cancel that.
- Wake me up at six tomorrow.
- Send a message to David saying I'm running about fifteen minutes late, so please start without me and I'll join you soon.
- Yes, send it.
- Remind me to buy eggs, strawberries, and orange juice when I leave work this evening.
- Play some quiet jazz in the kitchen.
- A little louder, please.
- Stop.
- Show me the fastest way to the airport from here, and tell me whether there's heavy traffic on the bridge right now.
- Did anyone call while I was out?
- Schedule a meeting with Emma for next Wednesday at three, and move my usual team lunch to Thursday.
- Search for a vegetable soup recipe that serves four.
- No, the other one.
- How do you say thank you in Spanish?
- Can you explain how a rainbow forms, using simple words that a young child could easily understand?
- Thanks, that's all.
When you're done
Send me the voice recording back when you're done! Thanks for your help!
Not in touch with us already? Send your recording as an issue on GitHub: the issue opens ready to fill in, and you attach the file there. An issue is public and shows your GitHub username; the published recording and the results never do.