Some people watch the news on TV. Other prefer to read the news in a newspaper. Still others use their computers to get the news. How do you prefer to be informed and why. Use reasons and examples.

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Some people watch the news on TV. Other prefer to read the news in a newspaper. Still others use their computers to get the news. How do you prefer to be informed and why. Use reasons and examples.

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Average: 8 (1 vote)
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Speakings by user jags3184 :

Comments

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 417.0 444.711560045 94% => OK
No of words: 103.0 116.580246914 88% => 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: 4.04854368932 3.81502700369 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.18573250055 3.28032121604 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.80279524481 1.8723322822 96% => OK
Unique words: 80.0 76.076318743 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.776699029126 0.655143326166 119% => OK
Syllable count: 131.4 141.574747475 93% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0257775837544 0.0738818816272 35% => 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: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 103.0 60.3232687746 171% => OK
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 42.67 22.9064221017 186% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 26.0 31.1548821549 83% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.96153846154 4.0588447711 98% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.98998974158 3.18357895611 63% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.56884615385 1.46810986539 107% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.723938623212 1.01537252472 71% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 25.0 28.6644219978 87% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.69 5.28593714927 127% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.2676 0.187982170178 142% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.200524911171 0.154715141812 130% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 32.79 35.408047138 93% => OK
Average word duration: 0.318349514563 0.306236595465 104% => OK
STD word duration: 0.166086286425 0.198589292138 84% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 6.3164983165 79% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.83 5.14435465769 74% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.88 2.80480359147 67% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 42.67 45.0716498316 95% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.948222222222 1.00159221848 95% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.585891727209 0.637764685501 92% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.4138739161 2.58495923209 93% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.87485352707 1.68816559523 111% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.43976822202 2.15290372801 113% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.34077223301 0.343871460585 99% => OK

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.