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TPO 23 - Question 4
Reference Groups
Our thinking and behavior are often influenced by other people. When we admire and respect someone, we naturally try to imitate their behavior and attitudes. Groups of people whom we admire and whose behavior and attitudes we tend to imitate are known as reference groups. Reference groups provide a model--a frame of reference--that can shape how we think and behave. Over the course of a lifetime, we may be influenced by many different reference groups. As we grow older, or encounter new circumstances, our reference groups may change, and our attitudes and behavior may change accordingly.
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| 2017-05-28 | aceit | 68.00 | Check this speaking |
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| 2017-04-28 | mgrajapt | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-11 | chandr | 53.33 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 639.0 592.248995984 108% => OK
No of words: 164.0 155.574297189 105% => OK
Chars per words: 3.89634146341 3.80514564318 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.57858190836 3.525876923 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.0736997173 1.79077849142 116% => OK
Unique words: 96.0 93.7148594378 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.585365853659 0.604071249207 97% => OK
Syllable count: 202.5 185.844578313 109% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0237152248702 0.0650381309087 36% => 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 4.35341365462 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 164.0 68.503853103 239% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 60.1 25.9943957902 231% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 7.84667146824 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 45.0 42.0642570281 107% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.64444444444 4.02192344571 91% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.48428571067 3.1217529195 112% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.28244444444 1.45093177766 88% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.977680146641 0.99851816184 98% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 36.0 39.0421686747 92% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.25 7.12997991968 74% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.145833333333 0.185688545393 79% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.103235841106 0.155154303396 67% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.96 47.1480722892 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.29243902439 0.305395592593 96% => OK
STD word duration: 0.146162797439 0.189427763521 77% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 7.94979919679 50% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.65 6.2937751004 42% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.71 3.39508032129 139% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.1 59.7592369478 101% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.00166666667 0.995987282463 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.599001663894 0.656000678711 91% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.72878535774 2.60215298798 105% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.59733777038 1.56821927147 102% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.00166805671 1.99336655568 100% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.473830829268 0.317803793328 149% => OK
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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.