Texas 25

Listen to Texas 25, a female-to-male 16-year-old from Rockport, Texas, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 16

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 03/11/2008

PLACE OF BIRTH: Georgia

GENDER: female to male

ETHNICITY: White/Caucasian

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION: high school

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS: 

The subject has never lived outside the Rockport, Texas, area for more than six months, having moved from Georgia at less than six months old.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: none

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RECORDED BY: subject

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 27/07/2025

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

The other day I was rewatching a dearly beloved video of mine, and it came up with the idea of a debate on which is better: cake or pie? I had to think for a second. What is better? Cake or pie? In my opinion, I think cake is way above pie in flavor and everything. I am saying this because I think pie just sometimes tastes a bit incomplete, because the factors for this was that there was no whipped cream; there was no ice cream and nothing. And a cake is not a cake without its whipped cream — or not its whipped cream, its icing, which is of course a part of it. So the icing can be so many different flavors compared to the cake itself. Now don’t get me wrong: The cake itself is very good too. The cake itself can be an addition to the cake or the frosting. But, but the pie: It kinda sits there in just a regular pie tin, regular pie crust. It’s generic; sometimes it’ll be chocolate, but most of the times it is a generic, generic flavor.

TRANSCRIBED BY: subject

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 27/07/2025

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