A relação entre unidades de velocidade de leitura na Legendagem para Surdos e Ensurdecidos

Abstract

When examining the SDH in the 3% series second season regarding the adequacy to the parameters of Netflix itself and the parameters recommended by academic research in the area (CARVALHO, 2018), we were faced with different reading speed units. Having a great difference between the results, we inferred that one of the causes would be precisely the difference between the used reading speed units, since Netflix uses characters per second (CPS) and the academy uses words per minute (WPM). We here explain the difference between such units, establishing a relationship between them. The purpose of this paper is to explain the difference between such units, establishing a relationship between them. We show that there is variation when converting WPM to CPS and vice versa as it is a nonlinear conversion because of the variation in word size (CARVALHO, 2018). We also show through graphs that the three speeds, 145, 160 and 180 words per minute tend to be positive,increasing the number of characters as time grows, but not linearly. And this growth decreases as we approach 4 seconds and this can be influenced by the average word size and the corresponding speed in CPS. In addition, we found in our corpus an average word size of 4.6 characters per word, similar to the average Portuguese word size which is 4.64 (QUARESMA; PINHO, 2007), but which is much smaller than 6.12 characters per word found in WPM to CPS conversion table used for subtitling.