duration measure in EVAL

[Mara Steinberg Lowe]

Thank you Leonid. I am using EVAL and getting a column in the output file 
labeled "Words/Min." Should I be getting this?  

~Mara

On Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 10:31:11 AM UTC-4, Spektor, Leonid: CMU 
wrote:
>
> Mara,
>
> I assume your are asking about KIDEVAL. EVAL does not compute word/time 
> ratio. The total time is computed only for a speaker indicated with +t 
> option. All time durations for each bullet associated only with the target 
> speaker are added together. Total time only includes time spent by target 
> speaker speaking. The silence time between utterances of target speaker is 
> not counted. The bullets are needed to compute total time. If some spoken 
> utterances do not have bullets, then results will be skewed. There is not 
> easier way in CLAN to extract time duration for utterance, than adding 
> bullet to it.
>
> Leonid.
>
>
>
> On Aug 12, 2015, at 01:45, Mara Steinberg Lowe <mara.st... at gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
> I am using EVAL to analyze picture description samples and would like to 
> calculate the words/min for each participant. I see that this is a variable 
> that is provided in the output, but am unsure of how the duration measure 
> is calculated.  Does EVAL calculate the duration of only the target 
> utterances (e.g., for the Participant, but not the interviewer) when the 
> utterances are linked to the transcript? If yes, is a sound bullet needed 
> for every utterance and what happens if there is not a sound bullet for 
> each utterance? If no, is there another way to easily extract the duration 
> for only one speakers utterances? 
>
> Thank you!
>
> ~Mara
>
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