Umeda N, Quinn A M
J Speech Hear Res. 1980 Mar;23(1):56-72. doi: 10.1044/jshr.2301.56.
The paper describes a method of estimating a person's reading rate from a small sample of his speech (in other words, a short sentence). Reading rate was obtained by measuring the speaking portion of a considerable amount of reading, and dividing it by the number of phonemes in the material (this is called the grand mean). Out of 108 sentences read by four talkers, 58 having 15 words or less were selected. The ratio of unstressed to stressed syllables, and the number of syllables per occurrence of terminal lengthening were calculated for each of the 58 sentences. Sentences with both of these values in the middle range were considered to have an average phoneme duration close to the grand mean. The prediction was compared to actual readings by four talkers, with 83 percent agreement. The Summary section contains instructions for applying our method of estimating a person's reading rate. Those who are interested should read the Summary section and the Appendix first.
本文描述了一种根据一个人简短言语样本（即一个短句）来估算其阅读速度的方法。阅读速度是通过测量大量阅读内容中的说话部分，并将其除以材料中的音素数量（这称为总平均值）得出的。在四位说话者朗读的108个句子中，选取了58个字数为15个或更少的句子。计算了这58个句子中每个句子的非重读音节与重读音节的比例，以及每次句末延长出现时的音节数量。这两个值都处于中间范围的句子被认为其平均音素持续时间接近总平均值。将预测结果与四位说话者的实际阅读情况进行了比较，一致率为83%。总结部分包含了应用我们估算一个人阅读速度方法的说明。感兴趣的人应首先阅读总结部分和附录。
