spoken-information-rate
nathanschaumann/spoken-information-rate
How much information per minute is spoken in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian and Armenian: report, data and analysis
spoken-language-analysisinformation-ratemultilingual-comparisonlinguistic-measurementspeech-ratetranslation-studiespython-analysisstatic-reportempirical-linguistics
Summary
A computational linguistics study comparing the spoken information rate across five languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, Armenian). It measures the relative speed of conveying the same meaning by analyzing word counts from translated texts and words-per-minute from audio narrations. The repository contains a self-contained Python analysis pipeline and a static HTML report.