Filler word counter
Start a practice run and tap once for each filler word you hear. Free, no sign-up.
Ah-Counter tally
Play back a recording, or ask a colleague to hold the phone during a practice run, and tap a button each time a filler comes up.
Press Start, then tap a button each time you hear a filler.
- Fillers this run
- 0
- All fillers a minute
- —
- Um and uh a minute
- —
- Last run, the number to beat
- —
The marks come from one online rating study (Laske and DiGennaro Reed, 2024): at 5 disfluencies a minute, ratings of the speaker showed no measurable harm; lower ratings showed most clearly at 12 filler sounds, such as um and uh, a minute. The raters were crowdsourced and judged speeches made for the study, and only the abstract was available to us.
Fewer, not zero. 5 a minute is not a pass mark, and 12 is not a fail mark. The authors suggest a low rate may be acceptable, so a count that falls from one run to the next matters more than a perfect one.
Nothing is saved: the counts disappear when you leave the page.