Fast talker

On the topic of digital audio, I thought this video was pretty interesting. This woman (Fran Capo) is apparently the world’s fastest talking woman, and the Discovery Channel had a segment on her in their show “More Than Human.” They used digital audio to slow down her voice and compare it to a normal speaker in order to figure out what she was doing so differently in her speech. It’s also pretty cool from a linguistics perspective. Anyways, here’s the link