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Some people believe it's essential for a person's education to learn to play a musical instrument. Others don't believe music education is important. Which view do you agree with? Explain why.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-04-12 | Elena Cristina | 48.67 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-12-05 | mgrajapt | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-06-21 | ying.ma | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-27 | chandr | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-27 | chandr | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Elena Cristina
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 431.0 444.711560045 97% => OK
No of words: 119.0 116.580246914 102% => OK
Chars per words: 3.6218487395 3.81502700369 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.30283395202 3.28032121604 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.60352341376 1.8723322822 86% => OK
Unique words: 81.0 76.076318743 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.680672268908 0.655143326166 104% => OK
Syllable count: 142.2 141.574747475 100% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0391441231795 0.0738818816272 53% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 3.20202020202 187% => OK
Average paragraph length: 19.8333333333 60.3232687746 33% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 12.6282311597 17.3634065801 73% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 7.29833333333 22.9064221017 32% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 4.60919160181 6.49597621602 71% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 30.0 31.1548821549 96% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.96666666667 4.0588447711 98% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.35145076381 3.18357895611 105% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.36833333333 1.46810986539 93% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.04460545449 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: 28.0 28.6644219978 98% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.46 5.28593714927 84% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.159285714286 0.187982170178 85% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.124697593385 0.154715141812 81% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 34.85 35.408047138 98% => OK
Average word duration: 0.292857142857 0.306236595465 96% => OK
STD word duration: 0.157571607609 0.198589292138 79% => 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: 5.56 5.14435465769 108% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.9 2.80480359147 103% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 43.79 45.0716498316 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.973111111111 1.00159221848 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.639415391642 0.637764685501 100% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.71751541448 2.58495923209 105% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.84973738296 1.68816559523 110% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.32424677188 2.15290372801 108% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.309795226891 0.343871460585 90% => 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.