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Relict Behavior
In general, animals act in ways that help them to survive within their specific habitats. However, sometimes an animal species may display a behavior that no longer serves a clear purpose. The original purpose for the behavior may have disappeared long ago, even thousands of years before. These behaviors, known as relict behaviors, were useful to the animal when the species' habitat was different: but now, because of changed conditions, the behavior no longer serves its original purpose. Left over from an earlier time, the behavior remains as a relict, or remnant, long after the environmental circumstance that influenced its evolution has vanished.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-02-28 | -vv- | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-19 | mike818 | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-01-01 | mgrajapt | Check this speaking | |
| 2016-10-22 | SheLaya | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-06 | chandr | 85.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 663.0 592.248995984 112% => OK
No of words: 157.0 155.574297189 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.22292993631 3.80514564318 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.53976893118 3.525876923 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.87711231714 1.79077849142 105% => OK
Unique words: 100.0 93.7148594378 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.636942675159 0.604071249207 105% => OK
Syllable count: 212.4 185.844578313 114% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.19417670683 117% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.044299048524 0.0650381309087 68% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 10.0 4.35341365462 230% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 15.7 68.503853103 23% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 12.231516668 21.3332995233 57% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 5.714 25.9943957902 22% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 4.05982314886 7.84667146824 52% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 25.0 42.0642570281 59% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.28 4.02192344571 156% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.23811278755 3.1217529195 136% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.082 1.45093177766 143% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.10547365414 0.99851816184 111% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 19.0 39.0421686747 49% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.33 7.12997991968 61% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.227894736842 0.185688545393 123% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.143804653587 0.155154303396 93% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 46.67 47.1480722892 99% => OK
Average word duration: 0.297261146497 0.305395592593 97% => OK
STD word duration: 0.158631132698 0.189427763521 84% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 2.0 7.94979919679 25% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 1.54 6.2937751004 24% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.25 3.39508032129 125% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.14 59.7592369478 96% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.952333333333 0.995987282463 96% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.332516625831 0.656000678711 51% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.74763738187 2.60215298798 106% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.75008750438 1.56821927147 112% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.14270409256 1.99336655568 107% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.410562541401 0.317803793328 129% => 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.