Working on the Rate of Speaking in Artistic Speech Therapy for the Mass-Media – Needs and Possibilities

The article discusses the matter of pace as one of several elements of text prepared to be read or delivered, emphasizing the relationship between pace and clarity of speaking. The terms defining the speed of speaking and describing its diversity, used in literature in the fields of phonetics and phonology, orthophony and artistic speech therapy, are indicated. On the basis of analysis of sample recordings of texts that are or may be the subject of work in artistic speech therapy and/or speech therapy for the mass-media, differences in pace, resulting from the nature of the text, type and situation of the speech, are shown. The article also highlights the factors that should be taken into account when working on the pace of speaking.