Speech Rate Meter

Description of Speech Rate Meter

Goal: 
The Speech Rate Meter (SRM) is designed to measure the speech rate as a complex prosodic component of intonation, the parameters of which are:
1) Actual rate - Rs, or total speed of reading the text (calculated as the number of words per minute during the actual pronunciation time, i.e. taking into account the duration of interphrase pauses);
2) Articulation rate - Ra, or phonemic stream generation rate (calculated as the number of words per minute for the total time of articulation, i.e. without taking into account the duration of interphrase pauses);
3) Pauses score – Tp, or the mean duration of the inter-phrase pauses (calculated as the RMS value of the duration of all pause sections).
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The Speech Rate Meter can be useful in the following practically important situations:
• In scientific and applied research of prosodic characteristics of oral speech
• When preparing speeches and presentations for self-control and teaching the desired rate of speech;
• To improve the skills of free reading in the native and foreign languages;
• As a means of self-control to eliminate speech defects associated with various physiological disorders and diseases;
• For individual training of oral and speech skills in a number of professions such as: call center operators, radio, TV announcers, etc .;
• As a means of monitoring the rate of speech in real working conditions of call-center operators, radio and television announcers.