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Using the examples from the lecture, discuss two types of narrators that an author of fiction might use.
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This speaking topic by users
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-29 | Seema Modak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-05-05 | mghcivil | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-18 | Bobby1987 | 88.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-18 | Elena Cristina | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-11 | chandr | 88.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Elena Cristina
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- Using the examples of the leafy sea dragon and the cuttlefish describe two kinds of camouflage and the benefits they provide 75
- Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which solution you would recommend Explain the reasons for your recommendation. 66
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 597.0 578.828451883 103% => OK
No of words: 157.0 151.265690377 104% => OK
Chars per words: 3.8025477707 3.82278263415 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.53976893118 3.50058242952 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.69465059603 1.80425224433 94% => OK
Unique words: 105.0 92.4686192469 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.668789808917 0.61298525976 109% => OK
Syllable count: 189.9 182.283891213 104% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20543933054 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0916150423174 0.0839705835288 109% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 4.47071129707 67% => OK
Average paragraph length: 52.3333333333 65.8948926009 79% => OK
STD paragraph length: 32.8261413443 19.7758100068 166% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 19.9 25.5208953607 78% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 13.2136469859 7.49434385956 176% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 32.0 42.9832635983 74% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.90625 3.78147595546 130% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.34712099412 2.94285465224 148% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.7915625 1.39386743896 129% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.24937761849 0.967747756167 129% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 28.0 40.4456066946 69% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.19 7.59280334728 95% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.256785714286 0.19053887516 135% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.211829675033 0.157467062838 135% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.36 46.3453556485 104% => OK
Average word duration: 0.308025477707 0.308780311121 100% => OK
STD word duration: 0.156243479315 0.201157623399 78% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 8.09623430962 111% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.05 6.56692468619 92% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.23 3.53066945607 63% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.7 59.5455230126 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.995 0.992425383543 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.469011725293 0.681803438845 69% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.62981574539 2.53813033465 104% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.75879396985 1.55221717717 113% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.17121588089 1.99939622689 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.31996766242 0.309613076454 103% => 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.