full-fledged pidgin

I’m currently looking for someone who might be interested in working with me on a speech synthesis research project. The gig would involve some time in the recording studio recording transcripts intended to elicit as-nearly-complete-as-possible a selection of English speech sounds in different contexts, different emotional conditions, and at different paces. Speaker should be comfortable reading copy into a mic (acting experience/training a huge plus), interested in learning something about how his/her vocal tract works, and willing to participate in a number of articulatory measurements (think tubes, electrodes, ultrasound wand placed submentally (beneath your jaw)) for surprisingly little compensation. :)

There would be two sessions:

1. Session 1: high-quality sound recording as described above.
2. Session 2: recording of same transcripts in a phonetics laboratory with various instrumentation installed and attached.

When we’re done you get an open-source speech synthesizer that talks in your voice. Please comment or e-mail me if you’re interested (or know someone who might be).