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From: Brandon Keith Biggs
Date: May 12, 2016 10:21AM

Hello,
What this study failed to mention, was how much of that time was spent in
pauses. I just slowed my screen reader down to 141 wpm and it sounded like
a drunk guy. So I wonder if there is an example of a human speaking 141 wpm
and how much of that was pause?
My initial thought is that the speaker was speaking 200+ WPM, but had a lot
of pauses so the listeners could catch up.
This study should have the recordings posted, so people can use that
speaking speed. Just to say 150 WPM could either mean speaking like a drunk
guy, or speaking normal with long pauses.
Thanks,


Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>;

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:03 AM, _mallory < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 04:17:31PM +0200, Karen Mardahl wrote:
> > Hi Marc,
> >
> > From anecdotal experience, you should also talk with people who have
> > hearing loss.
> >
> > I learned that even a very articulate speaker is bad news for a person
> > with, say, 30% hearing loss, if they are a rapid-fire speaker. The
> listener
> > with hearing loss has a hard time distinguishing the individual words and
> > the words become garbled. I attended such a presentation once and I
> > commented on how the speaker's voice carried nicely throughout the room
> and
> > how articulate she was. A friend with hearing loss said she had to work
> > hard to comprehend what was being said because the speaking delivery was
> > too fast for her to decipher properly. When you work hard just to grasp
> > what is being said, your cognitive experience decreases.
> >
> > I have never heard of research on this, but anecdotally, I know it is an
> > issue. I think this is an angle worth investigating to find out whether
> > there is some research somewhere.
> >
> > Regards, Karen Mardahl
>
> This reminds me of a conference I went to which had live captioning on a
> screen by a steno where the difference was obvious between fast-speaking
> speakers and "normal" speed speakers-- it was frequently joked about in
> between talks.
>
> _mallory
> > > > >