the sound of your voice

Lately, I had to give a lot of talks about my current research project (mainly bionanosensors for neurotransmitter detection based on carbon nanotubes. There are also a few funny bits about Egyptian Blue pigment as a fancy side project~) but instead of getting better with repetition, my English is getting weirder and weirder... Funny bits of German/Russian accents thrown into the mix don't make the situation any easier... so, I was just curious how the end product might sound to a native speaker? Therefore - and to make up for the lack of activity in the past 5 years (do you feel as old as me while typing that?) - I decided to upload some text snippets and accompany them with my vocalization. I hope it's understandable? I hereby present you with three attempts at communication with the outer world:

English and others species, (beware of lots of text and sound, no translation provided)
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