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When looking for information for a research project, some students prefer to get their information mainly from the Internet. Others prefer to mainly use printed materials such as books and academic journals. Which do you prefer, and why?
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| 2017-04-28 | Tulips | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-06 | ali rouhani | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-27 | chandr | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-12-25 | jags3184 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-04-16 | Saharnaz | 93.33 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 472.0 444.711560045 106% => OK
No of words: 124.0 116.580246914 106% => OK
Chars per words: 3.8064516129 3.81502700369 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.33699396548 3.28032121604 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.12389409308 1.8723322822 113% => OK
Unique words: 81.0 76.076318743 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.653225806452 0.655143326166 100% => OK
Syllable count: 150.3 141.574747475 106% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.172435372193 0.0738818816272 233% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 7.0 3.20202020202 219% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 17.7142857143 60.3232687746 29% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 12.5551843101 17.3634065801 72% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 6.83714285714 22.9064221017 30% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 4.18264343716 6.49597621602 64% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 26.0 31.1548821549 83% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.76923076923 4.0588447711 118% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.96528234883 3.18357895611 93% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.69769230769 1.46810986539 116% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.877147069908 1.01537252472 86% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 22.0 28.6644219978 77% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.07 5.28593714927 77% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.185 0.187982170178 98% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.103780800466 0.154715141812 67% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 38.98 35.408047138 110% => OK
Average word duration: 0.31435483871 0.306236595465 103% => OK
STD word duration: 0.188445431203 0.198589292138 95% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 14.0 6.3164983165 222% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 10.07 5.14435465769 196% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.24 2.80480359147 116% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 47.86 45.0716498316 106% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.06355555556 1.00159221848 106% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.45967404931 0.637764685501 72% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.59089009611 2.58495923209 100% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.69243627246 1.68816559523 100% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.07798871216 2.15290372801 97% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.459794354839 0.343871460585 134% => OK
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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 45 seconds.
Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.