[InternetOfStuff]

I don't think I subvocalise, I read way faster than I can speak. There's certainly ideas flowing through my mind as I read, but not sounds. It feels like a mixture between words, thoughts and emotions, not a stream of (silently) spoken words.

I bought a book on speed reading because I was dissatisfied with my "slow" reading, only to discover that according to their tests I was way up there in both speed and comprehension :-D

I was shocked to learn from that book that many people subvocalise - it felt so foreign (and utterly cumbersome) to me. I hadn't even considered people did that.

Most of the book was about not subvocalising - which I don't think I do anyway, so I never read it to the end.

Indeed if I read to my kids I'm often simultaneously reading one sentence aloud, and reading 1...2 sentences ahead for myself so I get the voices right. So in effect I'm reading the entire text twice while speaking it once.

[tsimionescu]

Subvocalizing is much faster than speaking. In general, subvocalizing refers to pronouncing the words in your head, which can be picked up by observing neural activity in the vocal chords.

Even if your vocal chords were doing the full range of motion (they are not), when speaking, you also have to open and close your mouth, move your tongue, take in breath and expel it etc. It's much more than simply some activity in your vocal chords.