COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING

 
 

Write down the duration for each of the five sentences on a sheet of paper.

 
 
 
 

Now add together the durations of the 5 sentences and then divide by 5. This value represents the speakers average sentence duration for this task.

 
 
 
 
 

What is this speaker's average rate of speech (in wpm) on this task?

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Here’s the formula!

Calculate the following for each of the

5 sentences.

 

First, compute the speech rate in wpm for each sentence.

(# words in sentence / sentence duration in sec) x 60 = # wpm

 

 

 

Second, to compute the avg speech rate

Add the wpm values for each of the 5 sentences together, and divide by 5. The resulting value is the speaker’s avg speech rate for this sentence production task!

 

  You may use this calculator to help in your computations

 






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