Average Words per minute in Speech is 130 WPM

in SSB mode it take 2.5 KHz of Bandwidth , so  130 WPM / 2500 Hz =  0.052 WPM/H

in CW mode, it takes 300 Hz of bandwidth, so even at 20 WPM / 300 Hz = 0.067 WPM/Hz

so Bandwidth efficiency of CW and SSB voice is about same.

 

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