1 A fully unsupervised method of calculating the speech rate estimation based on syllable nuclei detection was presented by de Jong and Wempe 2009as a Praat (Boersma and van Heuven, 2001) script, though we have yet to test this method on the data of the ILMT-s2s corpus to verify whether similar reliability can be obtained.
analysis of the syllables per second may not provide any better results since an analysis of the Switchboard corpus data (Godfrey et al., 1992), which is a corpus of a collection of natural and spontaneous telephone conversations, by Greenberg (1999, p. 167) indicated the following: Although only 22% of the Switchboard lexicon is composed of monosyllabic forms, approximately 80% of the corpus tokens are just one syllable in length [.