PRAAT scripts to measure speed fluency and breakdown fluency in speech automatically

Fluency in terms of speed speech and (lack of) hesitations such as silent filled pauses (‘uhm’s) is part oral proficiency. Language assessment rubrics therefore include aspects fluency. Measuring fluency, however, highly time-consuming because the manual labour involved. The current paper aims to automatically measure L2 including pauses, both Dutch English. A revised existing script a new for are tested on accuracy. We also gauged whether outcomes could be used language purposes by relating human judgements. Without further investigations, should not (yet) purpose assessing fluency (high-stakes) proficiency assessment. However, performance scripts measuring globally quickly promising, especially given their stability accuracy corpora.