On the statistics of spoken English

By Murray Hill. 1962

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Wavenet Based Low Rate Speech Coding (2017, background): “A recent rate estimate [5] based on comparing signals with the same message is consistent with lexical information rates computed from phoneme statistics [6].”
Phoneme similarity and confusability (2005, background): “With regards to Frisch s natural class metric this result is disappointing. This metric is theoretically wellmotivated and was more successful than SPMV in predicting speech error phoneme confusions in Frisch (1996). The contrast with the present result is a reminder that any measure of similarity m”
On the information rate of speech communication (2017, methodology): “Taking the average talking speed as 12 phonemes per second [3], and using the English phoneme probabilities tabulated in [4], the lexical information rate is approximately 50 b/s.”