TPO 17 - Question 4 Ritualization Sociobiologists believe that some communicative behavior in animals is developed through a process called ritualization. In this process, the purpose of a given behavior changes over time—a behavior that originally had

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 387.0 592.248995984 65% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 119.0 155.574297189 76% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.25210084034 3.80514564318 85% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.30283395202 3.525876923 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.45647489367 1.79077849142 81% => OK
Unique words: 62.0 93.7148594378 66% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.521008403361 0.604071249207 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 126.9 185.844578313 68% => The syllable count is low.
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.19417670683 92% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0220621917438 0.0650381309087 34% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.35341365462 46% => OK
Average paragraph length: 59.5 68.503853103 87% => OK
STD paragraph length: 4.5 21.3332995233 21% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 29.325 25.9943957902 113% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 2.015 7.84667146824 26% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 55.0 42.0642570281 131% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.16363636364 4.02192344571 54% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.5346143888 3.1217529195 49% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.03745454545 1.45093177766 72% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.70838412328 0.99851816184 71% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 54.0 39.0421686747 138% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 22.78 7.12997991968 319% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.421851851852 0.185688545393 227% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.477420049828 0.155154303396 308% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 32.32 47.1480722892 69% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.271596638655 0.305395592593 89% => OK
STD word duration: 0.185571944386 0.189427763521 98% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 7.94979919679 50% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.83 6.2937751004 61% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.8 3.39508032129 53% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.65 59.7592369478 98% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.9775 0.995987282463 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.920716112532 0.656000678711 140% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.02898550725 2.60215298798 78% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.05711849957 1.56821927147 67% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.91831683168 1.99336655568 96% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.260466344538 0.317803793328 82% => OK

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.