The research carried out to create and test the scripts published here was funded by British Council, through an assessment research grant (awarded to Nivja de Jong and Jos Pacilly).

This webpage contains two PRAAT scripts to measure fluency automatically. A rewritten praat script to measure silent pauses and articulation rate (original script syllable nuclei described in De Jong & Wempe, 2009), and a new script to measure filled pauses. This new script is tested on Dutch and English L2 data.

The algorithm and validation of the scripts can be found here:

De Jong, N.H., Pacilly, J., & Heeren, W. (2021). PRAAT scripts to measure speed fluency and breakdown fluency in speech automatically, Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 28:4, 456-476, DOI: 10.1080/0969594X.2021.1951162