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Captions, subtitles & timed text · Core

Characters per second

Also called: CPS

ELI5

A measure of timed-text reading speed based on character count and display duration.

Used in conversation

“The production plan needs to address the characters per second before work begins.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Characters per second” in accessibility, localisation, ethics & ai conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains access, language adaptation, care, provenance and emerging synthetic-media responsibilities.

Connected terms

  • Words per minuteComputed from definition language and shared taxonomy. This indicates proximity, not synonymy.
Sources & evidence · 8

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.