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JStt City Common Italian Balm. u -- ZiP- EAT ANYTHING WITH FALSE TEETH Anyone who has ever listened to a speeded-u- p tape recorder giving out with those shrill and squeaky comical sounds, knows that speech occurs at a standard fixed rate. Now language experts are beginning to tell us that it is definitely possible to compress speech into half or even a third of its normal time, with increased comprehension. In fact, these experts say, compressing speech into fractions of its normal time can command more attention than normal talking rates. Conventionally, we operate in 'low gear" in speech, but along with speed writing and speed reading, there is really no reason we cannot have speed listening. Various machines are being developed at the present time which toss out unneeded sounds with discrimination, enabling the listener to learn more in less time. These devices, however, are all designed to improve the rate at which we can learn and comprehend; they are riot presently aimed at making us speak any faster. Compressed speech would have a host of applications in education, communications, in the Armed Forces, instruction for the blind, industrial training, library research, and language study, just to name a few. Pioneering research in compressed speech techniques has been fruitful at the American Institute for Research in Silver Spring, Md., where Herbert L. Friedman and Roy O. Freedle have exposed college students to taped passages from normal listening speed of 175 words per minute to fast, 475 words per minute. According to Friedman, "With little or no practice, students get 80- - to comprehension at double their normal speed." According to Dr. David B. Orr of AIR, normal speech allows the fast thinker's h mind to wander. would not, be to confined the however, very bright. 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If you've any question about mail oder, just write: Service Department, Family Weekly, 641 Lexington New York, N.Y. 10022. Avenue, The Speed-speec- blind by concentrating information in spoken form. Since the average blind person cannot read much beyond 90 words per minute in Braille, his learning pace is correspondingly slow. 12 Family Weekly, February 1, 1970 o Speed listening in a language laboratory. Machines currently being developed to compress speech are designed to remove tiny segments of sound at equal intervals while restoring Formal pitch. This is achieved by rotating the playback head in the direction the tape is moving. Conversely, speech can be slowed by rotating the playback head in the opposite direction. As the devices become more sophisticated, they will lend themselves to being programmed to slice tcvaj vowels, consonants, silences between words, etc., so that the maximum intelligibility is achieved. Denver, Colo., radio station is reported to be compressing its output by some 17 percent in order to cran more music and news into each broadcast hour. Perhaps the most fantastic suggestion with respect to the possible uses of accelerated language is the idea put forth by some research scientists that would make possible a "dialogue" with animals. Research with birds, dolphins, and other members of the animal kingdom has established that their speech patterns are more efficient than man's. Sounds made by such creatures have been recorded, then broken down and slowed, and found to contain traces much like human words. Speech compression, therefore, could lead to some form of communication between man and animals. So far, there is some question as to just what is the optimal speed for humans. An student reads about average 225 words per minute, an enterinf Harvard freshman around 400. Average speeds: 125 to 200 words per minute. Researchers are fairly certain that most individuals could easily digest compressed speech at a rate of 500 words per minute with their usual comprehension. But whatever the pace, it appears that science may be on the verge of another breakthrough in the area of faster communications that is well suited to the jet age and its needs. high-scho- ol |