Estimating reading speed for subtitles: a new approach
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https://doi.org/10.24310/TRANS.2012.v0i16.3210Keywords:
subtitling, reading speed, characters per second, words per minuteAbstract
This paper presents a new tool which has been developed in order to make reading speed calculations, and whose results are expressed by means of the two parameters most used in the field: characters per second (cps) and words per minute (wpm). It has been confirmed that different subtitling software programs calculate different reading speed values (both in cps and wpm) for the same set of subtitles. Due to this, a very simple software application which calculates values for cps and wpm is now introduced. It has been designed to make no assumptions, but simply to count characters and to make very straightforward time algebra with the subtitle in and out times. This new tool allows for the calculation of reading speed values of large series of subtitles at a time, and it may be used both for research and in the classroom environmentDownloads
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