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heuristic to estimate duration of a word, based on looking across a number of transcripts
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wordDuration.js
// Chris Baume BBC R&D heuristic to estimate duration of a word, based on looking across a number of transcripts.
// from https://github.com/chrisbaume/webaligner/blob/9458df57d854e9df64a54bc23a7f0856de49730f/webaligner.js#L7
// estimates the duration of a word, in seconds
function wordDuration(word) {
return 0.08475 + (0.05379 * word.length);
}
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