Intepreting quality score

The Speechace quality_score measures the accuracy and intelligibility of the pronunciation of a sentence, word, syllable, or phoneme on a scale of 0 to 100.

The following rubric demonstrates how to use the quality_score to provide student feedback:

ScoreColorDescription

90 - 100

Green

Excellent. Native or native-like

80 - 90

Green

Very Good and clearly intelligible.

70 - 80

Orange

Good. Intelligible but with one or two evident mistakes.

60 - 70

Red

Fair. Possibly not intelligible with several evident mistakes.

0 - 60

Red

Poor and must be reattempted.

Below is a snippet of the quality_score code for the word "Some" within the overall response. Each element of the response, including sentences, words, syllables, and phonemes, has its own distinct quality_score.

"word_score_list":[
  {
    "word": "Some",
    "quality_score": 100,
    "phone_score_list": [
      {
        "phone": "s",
        "stress_level": null,
        "extent": [10,27],
        "quality_score": 99.05882352941177,
        "sound_most_like": "s"
      },
      ...
    }
]

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