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Some people like to have their cell or mobile phone with them at all times. Other people prefer not to bring their cell or mobile phone with them everywhere they go, or they choose not to own one at all. Which do you prefer? Explain why.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-16 | Bobby1987 | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-02 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-01-17 | paras001 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-01 | Seema Modak | 75.33 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-02 | mgrajapt | 73.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 512.0 444.711560045 115% => OK
No of words: 135.0 116.580246914 116% => OK
Chars per words: 3.79259259259 3.81502700369 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.4086580994 3.28032121604 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.98921647071 1.8723322822 106% => OK
Unique words: 88.0 76.076318743 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.651851851852 0.655143326166 99% => OK
Syllable count: 168.3 141.574747475 119% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.203162019186 0.0738818816272 275% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 3.20202020202 125% => OK
Average paragraph length: 33.75 60.3232687746 56% => OK
STD paragraph length: 11.9032558571 17.3634065801 69% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 11.0325 22.9064221017 48% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 3.88332573318 6.49597621602 60% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 17.0 31.1548821549 55% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 7.94117647059 4.0588447711 196% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 6.67277689999 3.18357895611 210% => The length of acoustic sentences changes so often.
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.44235294118 1.46810986539 166% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.86769606235 1.01537252472 184% => 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: 2.08 5.28593714927 39% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.173333333333 0.187982170178 92% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.128991817139 0.154715141812 83% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.54 35.408047138 106% => OK
Average word duration: 0.278074074074 0.306236595465 91% => OK
STD word duration: 0.160653739896 0.198589292138 81% => 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: 4.82 5.14435465769 94% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.96 2.80480359147 106% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 44.13 45.0716498316 98% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.980666666667 1.00159221848 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.271923861319 0.637764685501 43% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.05914343984 2.58495923209 118% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.99410831634 1.68816559523 118% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.3441662227 2.15290372801 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.474689074074 0.343871460585 138% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.