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Speakers vary their speed of speaking according to contextual and physical factors. A typical speaking rate for English is 4 syllables per second, [5] but in different emotional or social contexts the rate may vary, one study reporting a range between 3.3 and 5.9 syl/sec, [6] Another study found significant differences in speaking rate between story-telling and taking part in an interview.
Typically in high school speech competitions, a competitor is given 30 seconds to select a topic from a set of topics (usually three). The competitor will then have 5 minutes to compose a speech of five minutes with a 30-second grace period. There is a general outline for impromptu speeches, it is as follows: Introduction/roadmap (1 minute)
The Harvard sentences, or Harvard lines, [1] is a collection of 720 sample phrases, divided into lists of 10, used for standardized testing of Voice over IP, cellular, and other telephone systems. They are phonetically balanced sentences that use specific phonemes at the same frequency they appear in English.
The president then launched into a 20-minute speech in which he called for a "new era of responsibility." Read the full text of that speech below: My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by ...
An example of an agglutinative language, the average rate of Turkish speech is reported to be about 220 syllables per minute. When the time spent for the silent parts of speech are removed, the so-called average articulation rate reaches 310 syllables per minute. [21] The average number of syllables per (written) word has been measured as 2.6.
This recording is a forty-minute speech by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., which he delivered as the keynote speaker of "Religious Witness for Human Dignity, " a multi-faith event held at the Los Angeles Coliseum on May 31, 1964 [16] June 3 "Religious Witness for Human Dignity" Goodwin Stadium, Arizona State University and Tanner Chapel AME Church
They have to write for three minutes as quick as possible (not beautiful!) a sentence of 84 characters (incl. spaces) with every letter minimum once contained repeatedly. The mean values show: 5th Graders 100 - 120 cpm; 6th Graders 120 - 130 cpm; 9th Grader 160 - 170 cpm.
Extemporaneous Speaking (Extemp, or EXT) is a speech delivery style/speaking style, and a term that identifies a specific forensic competition.The competition is a speech event based on research and original analysis, done with a limited-preparation; in the United States those competitions are held for high school and college students.