Most recently, Pastore (In review) sought to
explore learners’ perceptions of time-compressed
speech in order to help determine what speeds they
would prefer when listening for entertainment
and learning purposes. Participants were
presented with a 30-question survey concerning
their preferences towards compressed speech. The
questions asked how much they preferred speech
compressed at 0%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, and
50% both with and without visuals. Participants
indicated that they preferred images to no images
when speech was compressed. Surprisingly,
participants consistently preferred the 10%
compression speed. These results indicate that
while learners can learn at higher speeds, they
only prefer low compression speeds around 10%.