Stevenson's TED talk is 190-words a minute — slightly faster than an audiobook, but not as fast as a rapid-fire motivational speaker who might clock in at 220 words a minute.
"I was accustomed by now to the 'Czech Terror' broadcasts, to the rapid voice of the speaker, calculated to whip up mass feeling, the stories of 'Red troops' running riot in the Sudeten villages, firing at random, of mass arrests of Sudeten Germans, and tales of sadistic torture in some dark Czech prison cell.
Public use of the Cherokee language and, indeed, any indigenous language was discouraged to the point of physical punishment in government-run Indian boarding schools, with the result of a rapid decline of native speakers.
But this new report believes the rapid adoption of smart speakers means we'll also see a massive increase in voice shopping.
More importantly, however, the result from Experiment 1 extended to Experiment 2 where we showed for the first time that the effect of tonality is not restricted to simple offline categorization, but is systematically and automatically used by speakers in rapid online word recognition to identify phonological quantity.
In the same debate Mr Gingrich delivered a peroration on the virtues of making people work that impressed his tea-party audience so much that they gave him a rapturous standing ovation.There followed something marvellous to behold: the further, rapid expansion of the former speaker's already prodigious ego.
The rapid rise of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to frontrunner status in Iowa and South Carolinabadly complicates Mitt Romney's hopes of quickly wrapping up the Republican presidential nomination and raises the possibility that the former Massachusetts governor only path to victory is a war of attrition.
That will only be accelerated through music streaming services' entry into the market and the rapid consumer adoption of smart speakers.
The rapid consumer adoption of smart speakers like Amazon Echo and Google Home has opened opportunities for developers creating voice apps, too.
Just as "BYOD" marked a culture-changing technology migration from the consumer world to the office with smartphones over a decade ago, the rapid home adoption of smart speakers puts them on a similar crash course with their next destination the workplace.
