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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Acad Audiol. 2012 May;23(5):313–331. doi: 10.3766/jaaa.23.5.3

Table 3.

Summary of Descriptive Information for Each TIMIT Sentence List

List Female Talkers Male Talkers Dialectical Regions Unique Talkers Total Words Mean Words Mean Age Min Age Max Age Grade Level
1 10 10 4 20 142 7.1 30.9 23 64 5.1
2 12 8 4 20 132 6.6 26.5 21 37 6.7
3 11 9 3 19 131 6.5 23.0 64 32 4.3
4 12 8 4 20 134 6.7 31.6 23 67 4.8
5 12 8 4 20 119 5.9 29.4 20 67 5.7
6 6 14 4 20 124 6.2 28.6 23 46 3.9
7 8 12 4 19 131 6.5 29.8 24 47 4.8
8 10 10 4 19 127 6.3 28.5 22 42 5.3
9 6 14 4 19 134 6.7 28.4 22 44 5.6
10 8 12 4 20 129 6.4 30.7 24 51 7.4
11 11 9 4 20 129 6.4 28.8 22 35 4.7
12 11 9 3 20 123 6.1 31.4 23 51 7.3
13 10 10 4 19 136 6.8 28.5 23 57 5.6
14 12 8 4 19 121 6.0 26.5 22 39 8.1
15 11 9 4 20 131 6.5 28.5 23 51 5.9
16 12 8 4 20 120 6.0 29.1 23 52 5.8
17 12 8 3 19 113 5.5 27.5 22 42 4.2
18 7 13 4 20 121 6.0 32.4 23 64 7.3
19 13 7 4 19 118 5.9 29.3 22 67 6.0
20 14 6 4 19 123 6.1 30.3 22 64 7.8
21 9 11 4 20 130 6.5 31.2 22 67 4.4
22 12 8 4 20 129 6.4 28.2 23 45 6.4
23 6 14 4 20 126 6.3 28.1 22 44 5.9
24 8 12 4 19 128 6.4 29.4 22 51 5.6
25 7 13 4 20 129 6.4 31.0 22 64 5.0
26 13 7 4 20 135 6.7 33.5 22 67 4.9
27 14 6 4 20 133 6.6 30.1 23 48 5.0
28 14 6 4 19 130 6.5 29.3 23 47 5.7
29 13 7 4 19 134 6.7 29.6 20 51 6.3
30 10 10 4 18 131 6.5 30.2 22 57 6.6
31 10 10 4 18 126 6.3 30.6 22 67 4.8
32 8 12 4 19 130 6.5 27.3 21 46 4.8
33 13 7 4 19 126 6.3 29.2 23 57 7.3
34 8 12 4 18 133 6.6 31.1 22 57 6.3

Mean 10.38 9.62 3.91 19.41 128.18 6.38 29.37 23.53 52.55 5.74
SD 2.45 2.45 0.29 0.66 5.98 0.31 1.94 7.21 10.49 1.09

Note: Dialectical Regions = the number of dialectical regions represented; Mean Words = the average number of words per sentence; Mean Age = the mean age of the talkers; Min Age = the minimum age of the talkers; Max = the maximum age of the talkers; Grade Level = the Flesch-Kincaid reading grade level as calculated by Microsoft Word 2007; SD = standard deviation.