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Reading DTW metrics and the similarity score

What the percentages, letter grades and pitch or duration warnings actually mean.

Published 28 September 2026 1 min read

The overall score

The 0–100 % score combines DTW distance on MFCC features, duration match, pitch and spectral centroid. An A means a close match; an F means a clear mismatch.

Why a similar sound can score low

Check your trim: extra silence at the start or end shifts the alignment. Keep only the working fragment in the editor.

score = 0.55 * dtw + 0.15 * duration + 0.15 * pitch + 0.15 * centroid

Warnings do not change the score directly, but they show what to fix in the next attempt.