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TPO12-Q2: Some people believe it’s essential for a person’s education to learn to play a musical instrument. Others don’t believe music education is important. Which view do you agree with?
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thu, 08/01/2019 - 23:23 | bishoy | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| Thu, 01/02/2020 - 21:37 | Bobby1987 | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| Tue, 04/12/2016 - 14:25 | Saharnaz | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| Thu, 08/01/2019 - 23:21 | bishoy | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 368.0 444.711560045 83% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 87.0 116.580246914 75% => 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: 4.22988505747 3.81502700369 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.05407580998 3.28032121604 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.18511763236 1.8723322822 117% => OK
Unique words: 62.0 76.076318743 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.712643678161 0.655143326166 109% => OK
Syllable count: 119.7 141.574747475 85% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.21358024691 115% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0720443257075 0.0738818816272 98% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 16.0 3.20202020202 500% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 5.4375 60.3232687746 9% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 3.44544536308 17.3634065801 20% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 2.520625 22.9064221017 11% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 1.23674203429 6.49597621602 19% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 25.0 31.1548821549 80% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.48 4.0588447711 86% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.95458965002 3.18357895611 93% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.3284 1.46810986539 90% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.986949563048 1.01537252472 97% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 12.0 28.6644219978 42% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 2.04 5.28593714927 39% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.17 0.187982170178 90% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.143817013365 0.154715141812 93% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 30.49 35.408047138 86% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.350459770115 0.306236595465 114% => OK
STD word duration: 0.190280543312 0.198589292138 96% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 6.3164983165 127% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.75 5.14435465769 112% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 6.64 2.80480359147 237% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 40.33 45.0716498316 89% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.896222222222 1.00159221848 89% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.297545251674 0.637764685501 47% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.15720307463 2.58495923209 83% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.53731713365 1.68816559523 91% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.03345359134 2.15290372801 94% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.588448114943 0.343871460585 171% => OK
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.