Re: Typical/Max "speech rate" ? - "words per minute"
- From: Richard Owlett <rowlett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:41:29 -0500
GB wrote:
jerry wrote:
On May 17, 3:29 pm, Richard Owlett <rowl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When specifying that one sends/receives Morse code at xx WPM it
presumes each "word" has 5 characters/symbols.
When searching for dictation rates one finds values from 80-140 WPM.
*BUT* just what is a word?
I don't think there's a definition -- it's generally taken to be words
of the language, of whatever length, hence the uncertainty in reported
figures.
I *THINK* I'm looking for a number of phonemes(possibly allophones)
per minute.
FWIW, I recall the rate of about 10 phones per second, which I *think*
is typical; depends on how fast one's speaking, of course. Don't know
if that's language specific. I can't quote a reference, either.
cheers,
jerry
Is 'phones' just short for phonemes? Or something different?
phoneme -> linguistically distinctive unit of sound.
phone -> identifiable speech sound
allophone -> phones that belong to the same phoneme
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneme
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