just listen to the instructions that I
gave you and I realized that I told you
the upside down calculation for
syllables per second I told you to take
the duration of the sentence and divide
it by the number of syllables 12 that'll
actually give you not syllables per
second that'll give you the average
duration of a syllable in seconds so
what you want to do and I've edited the
instructions for the assignment so it's
clear you want to take um 12 the number
of syllables in the sentence and divide
it by the duration of the sentence that
will give you rate of speech and
syllables per second I mean they're just
the inverse of each other right I mean
they're mathematically completely
derivable um but syllables per second is
the conventional way that we describe
rate of speech and speech language
pathology so um making sure that that
calculation is done conventionally is
kind of important so apologies um
apologies