The Salon · Instrument 02

Resonance Score. 21 questions. Four minutes.

Score any spoken piece — an audiobook chapter, a poem read aloud, a sermon, a podcast monologue — across the seven dimensions of audio immersion: Voice, Atmosphere, Pacing, Imagery, Emotional Arc, Memorability, and Repeatability. Calibrated against 2,400+ recordings in the C3POE catalog. Free, browser-only, no data sent.

Resonance Score Audio immersion diagnostic · v2.1 Live · Browser-only · No data sent

i. Piece

ii. Voice

iii. Atmosphere

iv. Pacing

v. Imagery

vi. Arc

vii. Memory

viii. Return

ix. Score

Name the piece.

An audiobook chapter you've recently listened to. A poem read aloud. A sermon you keep returning to. A podcast monologue that lives in your head. Anything spoken — name it.

Piece

Mary Oliver · Wild Geese

Stephen Fry · Sherlock Holmes

New Yorker Fiction Podcast

The seven dimensions.

Calibrated against 2,400+ spoken-word recordings. Each carries an empirically-derived weight in the composite.

i. Voice Performance (16%)The instrument. Range, control, presence, and the texture of breath.

ii. Sonic Atmosphere (14%)The ambient bed. Room tone, music, sound design — the air around the voice.

iii. Pacing (14%)The silences. How the work allows the listener time to land.

iv. Imagery Density (14%)The picture-per-minute rate. How vividly the words conjure scenes.

v. Emotional Arc (14%)The journey. Where the piece begins and where it lands.

vi. Memorability (14%)The lines you carry away. The phrase that follows you home.

vii. Repeatability (14%)The want to return. The piece that survives the second listen and the tenth.

~ 4 min · 21 questions · Free

The tearsheet.

Calibrated against 2,400+ spoken-word and audiobook recordings in the C3POE catalog.

Resonance Score

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Across the seven dimensions

Dimension

Score

/100

Producer's Note

What we'd lift next.

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