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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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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2018-03-11 | Mortezaa | 48.67 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-09-05 | civilicar | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-01-30 | Toefl2016 | 87.67 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-05 | mgrajapt | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-28 | Taniazehra | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Kumari Soni
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 468.0 444.711560045 105% => OK
No of words: 123.0 116.580246914 106% => OK
Chars per words: 3.80487804878 3.81502700369 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.33024571262 3.28032121604 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.76072110406 1.8723322822 94% => OK
Unique words: 86.0 76.076318743 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.69918699187 0.655143326166 107% => OK
Syllable count: 145.8 141.574747475 103% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0601449528205 0.0738818816272 81% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 5.0 3.20202020202 156% => OK
Average paragraph length: 24.6 60.3232687746 41% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 12.4354332454 17.3634065801 72% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 9.49 22.9064221017 41% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 4.48797950084 6.49597621602 69% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 22.0 31.1548821549 71% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.59090909091 4.0588447711 138% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.19587558214 3.18357895611 132% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.98090909091 1.46810986539 135% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.27967648288 1.01537252472 126% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 19.0 28.6644219978 66% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.11 5.28593714927 97% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.268947368421 0.187982170178 143% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.23993189246 0.154715141812 155% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.34 35.408047138 105% => OK
Average word duration: 0.303577235772 0.306236595465 99% => OK
STD word duration: 0.186386826017 0.198589292138 94% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 6.3164983165 111% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.65 5.14435465769 110% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.5 2.80480359147 125% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 47.45 45.0716498316 105% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.05444444444 1.00159221848 105% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.400421496312 0.637764685501 63% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.59220231823 2.58495923209 100% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.8124341412 1.68816559523 107% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.30316014997 2.15290372801 107% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.362175528455 0.343871460585 105% => 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.