Speaking Speed Measure
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A Speaking Speed Measure is a linguistic measure for a speaking act.
- Example(s):
- it can range from 100 to 160 wpm for average English speakers.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Words per Minute.
References
2017
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/words_per_minute#Speech_and_listening Retrieved:2017-6-27.
- Audiobooks are recommended to be 150–160 words per minute, which is the range that people comfortably hear and vocalize words. [1] Slide presentations tend to be closer to 100–125 wpm for a comfortable pace, auctioneers can speak at about 250 wpm, and the fastest speaking policy debaters speak from 350 to over 500 words per minute. Internet speech calculators show that various things influence words per minute including nervousness.John Moschitta, Jr., was listed in Guinness World Records, for a time, as the world's fastest speaker, being able to talk at 586 wpm. He has since been surpassed by Steve Woodmore, who achieved a rate of 637 wpm.
2010
- (Ash et al., 2010) ⇒ Sharon Ash, Corey McMillan, Delani Gunawardena, Brian Avants, Brianna Morgan, Alea Khan, Peachie Moore, James Gee, and Murray Grossman. (2010). “Speech Errors in Progressive Non-fluent Aphasia.” Brain and language 113, no. 1
- QUOTE: Characteristics of the overall speech output of the subjects are shown in Table 2. The PNFA patients took almost twice as long on average to tell the story compared to control subjects (p<.05). In that time, they produced only about two-thirds as many words as controls, so their overall speech rate in words per minute was one-third that of controls (p<.01).
- QUOTE: Characteristics of the overall speech output of the subjects are shown in Table 2. The PNFA patients took almost twice as long on average to tell the story compared to control subjects (p<.05). In that time, they produced only about two-thirds as many words as controls, so their overall speech rate in words per minute was one-third that of controls (p<.01).