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Some people prefer living in a big city. Other people prefer living in the countryside, away from urban areas. Which do you think is better? Explain why using specific details in your explanation.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-01-29 | tiaracoreadi | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-09-05 | civil2017 | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-01-30 | paras001 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-08 | mehrnazsadr | 96.67 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-12-04 | mgrajapt | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Elena Cristina
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- Using the points and examples from the lecture, explain the two pricing strategies described by the professor. 83
- Do you agree that we can judge a person by the appearance at the first glance? 71
- Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which solution you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation. 83
- Explain how the example of the television advertisement for pots and pans from the lecture illustrates the technique of refute-and-persuade. 81
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 413.0 444.711560045 93% => OK
No of words: 106.0 116.580246914 91% => 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: 3.89622641509 3.81502700369 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.2086804361 3.28032121604 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.95674568725 1.8723322822 105% => OK
Unique words: 72.0 76.076318743 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.679245283019 0.655143326166 104% => OK
Syllable count: 134.1 141.574747475 95% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0189672633893 0.0738818816272 26% => 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: 106.0 60.3232687746 176% => OK
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 45.6 22.9064221017 199% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 33.0 31.1548821549 106% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.21212121212 4.0588447711 79% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.38375278052 3.18357895611 75% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.30333333333 1.46810986539 89% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.758817527739 1.01537252472 75% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 27.0 28.6644219978 94% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.27 5.28593714927 119% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.232222222222 0.187982170178 124% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.208172530534 0.154715141812 135% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 34.33 35.408047138 97% => OK
Average word duration: 0.323867924528 0.306236595465 106% => OK
STD word duration: 0.195368885506 0.198589292138 98% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 6.3164983165 127% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.55 5.14435465769 127% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.55 2.80480359147 127% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.6 45.0716498316 101% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.01333333333 1.00159221848 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.592105263158 0.637764685501 93% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.32456140351 2.58495923209 90% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.57894736842 1.68816559523 94% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.09729099913 2.15290372801 97% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.228480481132 0.343871460585 66% => It may have issues on recording quality or you may have pronounciation issues.
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.