Local speech rate as a combination of syllable and phone rate

Pfitzinger, Hartmut R.

doi:10.21437/icslp.1998-545

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“…The sample size of this study was determined on the previous studies about judging speech rate (Pfitzinger & Tamashima, 2006; Plug & Smith, 2021). In study by Pfitzinger and Tamashima (2006), with 20 participants in each group, they found effect sizes ( η 2 = .267 ∼ .324) for the main effects of different languages in the speech rate judgment task. Another study (Plug & Smith, 2021) was recruited 34 participants and was found a robust effect size ( η 2 = .810) for judging speech rate when fixing the constituent duration.…”

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The More Unclear the Hearing, the Faster the Feeling: Speech Comprehension Changes Subjective Speech Rate

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Jin,

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Imagine being in a foreign country, surrounded by locals speaking a language entirely alien to you. Does their conversation seem to race like a machine gun? The perception of speech rate, as a facet of time perception, greatly impacts our daily lives. However, the factors influencing this perception remain poorly understood. Through a series of three experiments (with sample sizes of 31, 27, and 25 respectively), we discovered that speech comprehension significantly alters listeners' perception of speech rate. As comprehensibility diminishes, listeners tend to overestimate the speech rate. Intriguingly, this effect is further influenced by the listener's language proficiency. Specifically, the better the listener's language proficiency, the more likely their perception of speech rate is influenced by the speech comprehension. Our study corroborates the notion that biases in time perception may be prevalent in our everyday communication. These subjective experiences could prompt listeners to modify their behavior or processing strategies.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The More Unclear the Hearing, the Faster the Feeling: Speech Comprehension Changes Subjective Speech Rate

Chen,

Jin,

et al. 2023

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“…The current presentation practice favours measurements both in syllables per second (syll/s) and phones per second (pho/s). Since the relationship between the two is not straightforward in languages with complex syllabic structures (Pfitzinger, 1998;Koreman, 2006), we will report both rate units.…”

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Variation in speech tempo and its relationship to prosodic boundary occurrence in two speech genres

Volín¹

2023

Auc Philologica

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The present study focuses on two problems connected with speech tempo. First, earlier research has been prevalently concerned with central tendencies while variation was mostly perceived as an auxiliary result. We believe, however, that information about data dispersion is essential for proper modelling and experiment design in the field of temporal structure of speech. Therefore, the present study provides reference values for some of the tempo metrics of variation that pertain to (a) between-genre differences, (b) within-genre differences, (c) inter-speaker differences, and (d) intra-speaker differences. Second, we tested the claim that faster tempi lead to fewer prosodic breaks in spoken texts. This claim had been supported by studies where a respondent was asked to produce the same text at various rates. We, on the other hand, pose a question of the number of prosodic breaks in speakers who are fast or slow inherently. The material used in the study represents two genres: poetry reciting and news reading, and we obtained recordings from 24 speakers in each genre. Apart from providing the quantifications, the outcomes suggest, for example, that the predisposition of individual speakers to produce fast or slow tempi differs between the two genres. The fastest speakers in news reading were not necessarily the fastest in poetry reciting. This result points at specific behaviour in different situations and invites caution concerning the idea of hard-wired speaking stereotypes in individuals. Also, the correlation between speakers’ rates and the number of phrases they produced was significant only in news reading, not in poetry reciting. This result was corroborated by greater variation in prosodic boundary placement in news reading. In addition, the results offer an insight into the relationship between articulation rate and speech rate, together with the comparison of measurements in syllables per second and phones per second. The latter can be of interest since Czech (the language of the material) belongs to languages with a complex syllabic structure.

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“…Fletcher 2010), megkülönböztetésük azért lehet iránymutató, mert egészen más eredményekhez vezethetnek. Hozzá kell tennünk, hogy mindkét típus vizsgálható akusztikai mérésekkel és percepciós tesztekkel egyaránt (Pfitzinger 1996, Wagner-Windmann 2011, Gibbon et al 2014), de itt most csak az előbbire koncentrálunk. Kimutatták, hogy az időbeli mintázatok eltérőek lehetnek attól függően, hogy mekkora alapegységet vizsgálunk (lásd de Looze 2010).…”

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Kohári¹

2016

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Local speech rate as a combination of syllable and phone rate

Cited by 30 publications

References 6 publications

The More Unclear the Hearing, the Faster the Feeling: Speech Comprehension Changes Subjective Speech Rate

The More Unclear the Hearing, the Faster the Feeling: Speech Comprehension Changes Subjective Speech Rate

Variation in speech tempo and its relationship to prosodic boundary occurrence in two speech genres

Időzítési mintázatok a magyar beszédben

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