Listening Script
Narrator
Now listen to a part of a talk in an economics class.
Professor
So, let's talk about money. What is money? Well, typically people think of coins and paper "bills" as money... but that's using a somewhat narrow definition of the term. A broad definition is this: [slowly] money is anything that people can use to make purchases with. Since many things can be used to make purchases, money can have many different forms. Certainly, coins and bills are one form of money. People exchange goods and services for coins or paper bills, and they use this money … these bills... to obtain other goods and services. For example, you might give a taxi driver five dollars to purchase a ride in his taxi. And he in turn gives the five dollars to a farmer to buy some vegetables ...
But, as I said, coins and bills aren't the only form of money under this broad definition. Some societies make use of a barter system. Basically, in a barter system people exchange goods and services directly for other goods and services. The taxi driver, for example, might give a ride to a farmer in exchange for some vegetables. Since the vegetables are used to pay for a service, by our broad definition the vegetables are used in barter as a form of money.
Now, as I mentioned, there's also a second... a narrower definition of money. In the United States only coins and bills are legal tender—meaning that by law, a seller must accept them as payment. The taxi driver must accept coins or bills as payment for a taxi ride. OK? But in the U.S. the taxi driver is not required to accept vegetables in exchange for a ride. So a narrower definition of money might be whatever is legal tender in a society, whatever has to be accepted as payment.
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-08-02 | dshah6611 | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 627.0 578.828451883 108% => OK
No of words: 184.0 151.265690377 122% => OK
Chars per words: 3.40760869565 3.82278263415 89% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.68302321012 3.50058242952 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.53656404496 1.80425224433 85% => OK
Unique words: 103.0 92.4686192469 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.559782608696 0.61298525976 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 201.6 182.283891213 111% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.20543933054 91% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0766825491364 0.0839705835288 91% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 4.47071129707 67% => OK
Average paragraph length: 61.3333333333 65.8948926009 93% => OK
STD paragraph length: 38.8014890894 19.7758100068 196% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 20.1866666667 25.5208953607 79% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 12.406475012 7.49434385956 166% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 57.0 42.9832635983 133% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.22807017544 3.78147595546 85% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.32991514491 2.94285465224 113% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.0050877193 1.39386743896 72% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.897521192257 0.967747756167 93% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 56.0 40.4456066946 138% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.59 7.59280334728 113% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.153392857143 0.19053887516 81% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.11634733691 0.157467062838 74% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 46.3 46.3453556485 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.251630434783 0.308780311121 81% => OK
STD word duration: 0.132277517676 0.201157623399 66% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 8.09623430962 49% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.87 6.56692468619 44% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.15 3.53066945607 89% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.56 59.5455230126 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.00933333333 0.992425383543 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.924702774108 0.681803438845 136% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 3.03830911493 2.53813033465 120% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.70079260238 1.55221717717 110% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.22462203024 1.99939622689 111% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.19828398913 0.309613076454 64% => It may have issues on recording quality or you may have pronounciation issues.
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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.
Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.