Pennsylvania 14

Listen to Pennsylvania 14, a 40-year-old man from Newportville, Pennsylvania, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 40

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 23/07/1981

PLACE OF BIRTH: Newportville, Pennsylvania (adjacent to Bristol and Levittown)

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Caucasian/White

OCCUPATION: control specialist

EDUCATION: high school

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS: none

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject says he was influenced by the speech of the Philadelphia region.

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RECORDED BY: Joshua Shannon (subject)

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 26/12/2021

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

So my name is, uh, Joshua Shannon. I, uh, grew up in Newportville, Pennsylvania. It’s like, uh, I guess a part of, uh, Bristol, Pennsylvania. It’s actually in Bristol Township. But, uh, I was born there in Newportville and then eventually moved to, uh, you know, uh, the greater area of Levittown. Uh, I mean Newportville is in Levittown, but it’s, uh, you know, a small pocket of it. Um, I guess I, uh, yeah, you know I started my career as a, a laborer, and then I just moved into, uh, being an electrician, and then from there, um, I guess doing a lot of industrial work, I used to see the programmers program up the, uh, machinery for like conveyors and mixers and whatnot. It’s, um, always something that I wanted to do. So I got myself into programming, and that’s pretty much what I’m doing now, so I’m kind of an automation-controls engineer without a degree. Um, and it’s something I enjoy. I mean, it pays the bills.

Uh, my real passion is acting, and I’m doing voice-overs, so, um, acting of course is my main passion. It’s something I’ve been trying to get into and just doing as much as I can, and, you know, just I guess, you know, it’s, it’s uncomfortable for me, but it’s something I really enjoy, and I, I love it. I mean, you know you can — you know you get a lot of empathy from doing that kind of work and understanding where, you know, other people come from, and, you know, where their — what, what their points of view are. And it’s just something I love to do. Uh, I’m rather green at it, and I’m very new at it, but, uh, you know, I just gotta keep going with it. OK, take care.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Joshua Shannon (subject)

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 26/12/2021

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

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