In my last post, I covered the speech rate problem as I perceived it. Understanding the theory of what is going on is half the work. I decided to make a cross-platform speech rate benchmark that would allow me to identify how well each platform conforms to rate changes.

So how do you measure speech rate? I guess you can count words per minute. But in reality, all we want is relative speech rate. The duration of each utterance at given rates should give us a good reference for the relative rate. Is it perfect? Probably not. Each speech engine may treat the time between words, and punctuation pauses differently at different rates, but it will give us a good picture.

For example. If it takes a speech service 

http://blog.monotonous.org/2016/03/17/benchmarking-speech-rate/