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tpo 20-2
Some people prefer to learn about current events from watching television news programs . Others prefer to read about current events in newspapers or on the internet ,Which do you think is better : watching the news or reading the news? Explain why.
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| 2018-03-02 | -vv- | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Seema Modak
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 552.0 444.711560045 124% => OK
No of words: 160.0 116.580246914 137% => OK
Chars per words: 3.45 3.81502700369 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55655882008 3.28032121604 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.63095064303 1.8723322822 87% => OK
Unique words: 96.0 76.076318743 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.6 0.655143326166 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 181.8 141.574747475 128% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0260736240382 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: 160.0 60.3232687746 265% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 46.62 22.9064221017 204% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 27.0 31.1548821549 87% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.92592592593 4.0588447711 146% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.85790123259 3.18357895611 121% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.68777777778 1.46810986539 115% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.05059183791 1.01537252472 103% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 30.0 28.6644219978 105% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 2.76 5.28593714927 52% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.092 0.187982170178 49% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.123650043806 0.154715141812 80% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 41.07 35.408047138 116% => OK
Average word duration: 0.2566875 0.306236595465 84% => OK
STD word duration: 0.135091274121 0.198589292138 68% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 6.3164983165 63% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.52 5.14435465769 49% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.85 2.80480359147 30% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 46.62 45.0716498316 103% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.036 1.00159221848 103% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.643500643501 0.637764685501 101% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.432003432 2.58495923209 133% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.0592020592 1.68816559523 122% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.33747260774 2.15290372801 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.33658236875 0.343871460585 98% => 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.