I found a site where you can listen to people read the sentences in different accents and tried to see if it was possible to hear a series of lines aloud without them gathering meaning.

The package uses an external text-to-speech engine (like flite) to pronounce the word at or near point, the selected region or a whole buffer. M-x read-aloud-this-- pronounce either the selection or a ...

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The Premiers’ Reading Challenge begins on the first Monday in March each year and ends on the first Friday in September. In 2025, registrations will open on Monday 3 March, 2025. The Challenge ...