The read
A scripted address, read straight to camera — and the pacing is the striking reading: nine percent silence, thirty-four stops averaging four-tenths of a second, below the band on both counts, the address moving point to point almost without a break. What holds up under that pace is the sound itself: average pitch, variability and range all optimal, and harmonic clarity optimal through an off-air, standard-definition capture that should have blurred it. On the six-score scale it’s warmth and likeability that carry the page — readings built on the clean, steady signal underneath, not on the pace above it.