Here's the request that I got:
Hello!
I'm currently helping out with research into some speech software, but we need some help..
basically we need to get as many sound clips of people talking as possible.
we've set up a page for people to submit their voice clips for this, which can be found at:
http://jwned.com/sounds/speech.php
Apologies if this isn't the right place to post this, and thank you for reading