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Some people enjoy taking risks and trying new things. Others are not adventurous: they are cautious and prefer to avoid danger. Which behavior do you think is better? Explain why。
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 317.0 444.711560045 71% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 86.0 116.580246914 74% => 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: 3.68604651163 3.81502700369 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.04526164648 3.28032121604 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.65136749468 1.8723322822 88% => OK
Unique words: 60.0 76.076318743 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.697674418605 0.655143326166 106% => OK
Syllable count: 108.9 141.574747475 77% => The syllable count is low.
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0628943962918 0.0738818816272 85% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.20202020202 94% => OK
Average paragraph length: 28.6666666667 60.3232687746 48% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 14.3836326736 17.3634065801 83% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 15.0 22.9064221017 65% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 8.00098743906 6.49597621602 123% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 44.0 31.1548821549 141% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 1.95454545455 4.0588447711 48% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.56603937972 3.18357895611 49% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 0.990681818182 1.46810986539 67% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.702092320164 1.01537252472 69% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 48.0 28.6644219978 167% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 10.04 5.28593714927 190% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.209166666667 0.187982170178 111% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.190949746152 0.154715141812 123% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 32.19 35.408047138 91% => OK
Average word duration: 0.374302325581 0.306236595465 122% => OK
STD word duration: 0.239070587502 0.198589292138 120% => It may have hesitations.
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 10.0 6.3164983165 158% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 8.3 5.14435465769 161% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.4 2.80480359147 50% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.0 45.0716498316 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.0 1.00159221848 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 1.06666666667 0.637764685501 167% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 1.91111111111 2.58495923209 74% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.33333333333 1.68816559523 79% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.86393289842 2.15290372801 87% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.312106383721 0.343871460585 91% => 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.