The Flesch Kincaid readability test is a measure of a written document's readability. There are numerous methods of measuring written text's readability but processing spoken text is different than written text. Is there a similar way to measure spoken text but with the auditory reception of speech taken into account as opposed to the visual reception of written communication?
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closed as off topic by FumbleFingers, onomatomaniak, kiamlaluno, simchona♦, Daniel δ Dec 19 '11 at 19:08
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There's also the similar 'Gunning Fog Index' (see here, for example), and probably several others. The nature of speech would make it much more difficult to analyze it in this way, not least because of the role of paralanguage. Any test of intelligibility would ulttimately rely on some kind of transcript, whose analysis would in part, at least, have to rely on the kind of tests applied to written language. |
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Speech recognition has yet not delivered on its promise, to the extent it could be applied effectively in most cases. I believe lots of potential applications are hindered for want of a real and powerful speech engine. |
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