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Using the examples in the lecture, explain how the position of birds' eyes is critical to their survival.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-04-09 | Elena Cristina | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-06-07 | Elena Cristina | 75.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-28 | bishoy | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-28 | bishoy | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-29 | Seema Modak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Elena Cristina
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- Some people believe it is important for universities to provide funding for student entertainment, such as movies or concerts on campus. Others believe that university money should only be used for academic purposes. Which view do you agree with? Explain 78
- Should government pay bill for museums and theatres? Explain your argument. 70
- Using the examples from the lecture, explain two developments that allowed ancient Roman cities to expand 70
- Using points from the lecture, explain how the passion plant and the potato plant defend themselves from insects. 80
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 568.0 578.828451883 98% => OK
No of words: 155.0 151.265690377 102% => OK
Chars per words: 3.66451612903 3.82278263415 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.52844152537 3.50058242952 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.5751187128 1.80425224433 87% => OK
Unique words: 93.0 92.4686192469 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.6 0.61298525976 98% => OK
Syllable count: 176.4 182.283891213 97% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.20543933054 91% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0821917808219 0.0839705835288 98% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 7.0 4.47071129707 157% => OK
Average paragraph length: 22.1428571429 65.8948926009 34% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 25.1988013968 19.7758100068 127% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 8.22428571429 25.5208953607 32% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 8.67624483805 7.49434385956 116% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 44.0 42.9832635983 102% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.52272727273 3.78147595546 93% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.0858079564 2.94285465224 105% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.19590909091 1.39386743896 86% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.867526049339 0.967747756167 90% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 35.0 40.4456066946 87% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.8 7.59280334728 90% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.194285714286 0.19053887516 102% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.17013080202 0.157467062838 108% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 42.11 46.3453556485 91% => OK
Average word duration: 0.271677419355 0.308780311121 88% => OK
STD word duration: 0.154321906353 0.201157623399 77% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 8.09623430962 86% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.26 6.56692468619 80% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 6.57 3.53066945607 186% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.57 59.5455230126 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.9595 0.992425383543 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.607955532395 0.681803438845 89% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.69237450061 2.53813033465 106% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.61542470036 1.55221717717 104% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.20850154358 1.99939622689 110% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.272673154839 0.309613076454 88% => OK
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.