Talk:Speech tempo

Rewriting needed
This is a lamentable piece of work. Articles that are submitted to WP are often rejected on the grounds that the references are inadequate, but this one has got in in spite of the fact that it doesn't have a single ref to back up its dubious claims. It's an important topic that deserves a proper treatment. RoachPeter (talk) 11:58, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
 * OK, I'll try to write something better. RoachPeter (talk) 17:08, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I have now written a draft article which I hope improves on the existing article - it is in my sandbox. I have some problems with it, and since they are general in nature I have put a note on the discussion page of Wikiproject Linguistics. RoachPeter (talk) 15:06, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Language differences
Anecdotal, but when I worked for a dual Arabic and English language network, English newsreaders had the teleprompt set to around 3 words/minute, whereas for Arabic newsreaders it was around 2 words/minute. I stumbled on this article trying to find some academic sources, so it seems there's still some work to do. I've found one study on radio speech tempo which I'll add. Istara (talk) 23:49, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Anecdotal as well, but from my own experiences as a native speaker of the Brooklyn variant of New York City English who subsequently traveled to other parts of the country, I observed that the speech tempo associated with different regional variations was at least as significant as differences in pronunciation and vocabulary choices. I mention this here because I have just been reading several Wiki articles about various English dialects and I was surprised that none of them included discussion of the speech tempo. While it is certainly true that speech tempo will vary among different speakers and even within the speech of a single speaker, such variations are normally far smaller than the differences among various regional speech patterns. The speech tempo common to New York City English is nearly twice that common to much of Southern American English. While differences in pronunciation and vocabulary are becoming less and less regionally specific, my own experience suggests that regional differences in speech tempo are remaining quite strong. I believe this long-ignored article on Speech Tempo is important and deserves more attention. --N4aof (talk) 17:58, 1 December 2018 (UTC)


 * There has been some research backing up this anecdotal evidence:
 * https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394509990093 for American English dialects (also follow-up work), and
 * http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2821762 for variants of Dutch.
 * This could be added in the section of within-speaker variability and between-language variability. Hquene (talk) 14:28, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Human's phones recognition is similar as it on frames of video: more than ~0.05s for a distinguished atom of listening. I can't find sources on this currently. Okolo-basii (talk) 21:23, 16 January 2019 (UTC)