@Lizka Apologies is this was raised and answered elsewhere, but I just noticed in relation to this article that your reading estimate says 12 minutes, but when I press listen to this article it says 19 minutes at normal speed? Is there a reason for the discrepancy? How is the reading time calculated?
Also, when I tried to look for who else from the Forum team to tag—I don’t find any obvious page/link that lists the current team members. How can I find this in the future?
“The moderation team The current moderators (as of July 2023) are Lorenzo Buonanno, Victoria Brook, Will Aldred, Francis Burke, JP Addison, and Lizka Vaintrob (we will likely grow the team in the near future). Julia Wise, Ollie Base, Edo Arad, Ben West, and Aaron Gertler are on the moderation team as active advisors. The moderation team uses the email address forum-moderation@effectivealtruism.org. Please feel free to contact us with questions or feedback.” https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/yND9aGJgobm5dEXqF/guide-to-norms-on-the-forum#The_moderation_team
This text has 3037 words. 3037 / 250 = 12,15 min.
”In the English language, people speak about 140 words per minute. A fast speaker will get to 170 words per minute, a slow speaker will use around 110 words.” https://debatrix.com/en/speech-calculator/
3037 / 140 = 21,70 min
The AI finished reading this post at 18:50 with the outro left. So we have 18,83 min. 3037 / 18,83 = 161,29 words per minute
The AI voice speaks slightly faster than the average human.
@Lizka Apologies is this was raised and answered elsewhere, but I just noticed in relation to this article that your reading estimate says 12 minutes, but when I press listen to this article it says 19 minutes at normal speed? Is there a reason for the discrepancy? How is the reading time calculated?
Also, when I tried to look for who else from the Forum team to tag—I don’t find any obvious page/link that lists the current team members. How can I find this in the future?
Most people can read faster than they can talk, right? So 60% longer for the audio version than the predicted reading time seems reasonable to me?
“The moderation team
The current moderators (as of July 2023) are Lorenzo Buonanno, Victoria Brook, Will Aldred, Francis Burke, JP Addison, and Lizka Vaintrob (we will likely grow the team in the near future). Julia Wise, Ollie Base, Edo Arad, Ben West, and Aaron Gertler are on the moderation team as active advisors. The moderation team uses the email address forum-moderation@effectivealtruism.org. Please feel free to contact us with questions or feedback.”
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/yND9aGJgobm5dEXqF/guide-to-norms-on-the-forum#The_moderation_team
And there is also the online team:
https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/team/
For questions like this I would use the intercom, read here how the team wants to get in contact:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/contact
I don’t know the formula, but I think the reading time looks at the number of words and estimates how long someone would need to read this much text.
“The general adult population read 150 – 250 words per minute, while adults with college education read 200 – 300 words per minute. However, on average, adults read around 250 words per minute.”
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-fast-considered-speed-reading-quick-facts-paul-nowak
This text has 3037 words. 3037 / 250 = 12,15 min.
”In the English language, people speak about 140 words per minute. A fast speaker will get to 170 words per minute, a slow speaker will use around 110 words.”
https://debatrix.com/en/speech-calculator/
3037 / 140 = 21,70 min
The AI finished reading this post at 18:50 with the outro left. So we have 18,83 min.
3037 / 18,83 = 161,29 words per minute
The AI voice speaks slightly faster than the average human.
Does this answer your question?