prosody

an experiment

hearing

ready

What happens: which feature of the poem becomes which sound. Set A and B, then switch while it plays.

	A	B

Candidate mappings still under review. Each is a selector: choose a variant — or off — for each setting, then switch between A and B while it plays; the Score tab measures both. A bold border marks a choice that is not the default. The pulse has no off: steady gives every bar as long as its beats, elastic every bar the same span, as the page once played every poem. Nor has the stack: crossing keeps every line on its own feet, straight fits a line sounding under the bar's line to that line's subdivision wherever the two would cross.

A voice reading the poem over the music.

Engine Language Voice Pace Reading level duck the music while a stanza is read

Whether and when lines are read is the reading mapping above: breath (the default) reads each stanza through, with a silent bar before the next stanza and never before the music has begun it; arrives speaks each line once, where it is first heard; stanza reads a stanza through from where it is first heard; off reads nothing. Loops, lanes and the outro are never read. At the natural pace a line follows the one before after a pause from how it ends — a quarter of a second after a line that runs on, more after a comma, more after a full stop, a second and a half at a stanza's end; fitted fits each line to its bar. Strudel's clock places every line; a neural voice is rendered ahead and started exactly on it, the browser's voice as near as its speech allows. Kokoro and Kitten speak English; Piper speaks many languages, Slovenian among them. Kitten needs WebGPU.

Judged against

metric	band	A	B	B − A

A value outside its band is marked; its fit falls with the distance. Interest is the geometric mean of the fits; legibility comes from recompiling the poem with each word swapped, and asks whether every change is heard where the word is. Overall is the two multiplied. The bands are reasoned guesses, not measurements of records — trust your ears over them.