Audiobook Demo - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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A sample reading of a passage from \"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes\" by Arthur Conan Doyle. Rogier uses an energetic inflection and surprising modulation in this reading of a passage rich in action and imagery.

Source: Project Gutenberg
From “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Young Adult (18-35)

Accents

North American (General)

Transcript

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he flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through the endless succession of somber and deserted streets, which wide and gradually until we were flying across a broad ballast rated bridge with the murky river flowing sluggishly beneath us, Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and mortar. It's silence only broken by the heavy regular footfall of the policemen or the songs and shouts of some belated party of revelers. A dull rack was drifting slowly across the sky and a star to twinkle dimly here and there, through the rifts of the clouds. Holmes drove in silence with his head sunk upon his breast and the air of a man who is lost in thought while I sat beside him, curious to learn with his new quest might be, which seemed to taxes powers so sorely and yet afraid to break in upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, and we're beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban villas when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders and little bits pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he is acting for the best