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TPO 18 - Question 4
Using the example of the pronghorn and lion, explain the concept of a relict behavior.
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| 2019-11-07 | shrijan | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 625.0 592.248995984 106% => OK
No of words: 153.0 155.574297189 98% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 4.08496732026 3.80514564318 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.51700396316 3.525876923 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.07048260112 1.79077849142 116% => OK
Unique words: 94.0 93.7148594378 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.614379084967 0.604071249207 102% => OK
Syllable count: 196.2 185.844578313 106% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0541903133361 0.0650381309087 83% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 9.0 4.35341365462 207% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 17.0 68.503853103 25% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 8.61523198888 21.3332995233 40% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 6.17555555556 25.9943957902 24% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 2.53113110908 7.84667146824 32% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 29.0 42.0642570281 69% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.27586206897 4.02192344571 131% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.10967363185 3.1217529195 132% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.78620689655 1.45093177766 123% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.25064511296 0.99851816184 125% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 21.0 39.0421686747 54% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 2.8 7.12997991968 39% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.133333333333 0.185688545393 72% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.112263861519 0.155154303396 72% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.92 47.1480722892 97% => OK
Average word duration: 0.300130718954 0.305395592593 98% => OK
STD word duration: 0.173046470498 0.189427763521 91% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 7.94979919679 113% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.69 6.2937751004 106% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 5.01 3.39508032129 148% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 55.58 59.7592369478 93% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.926333333333 0.995987282463 93% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.377833753149 0.656000678711 58% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.75278877294 2.60215298798 106% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.69125584743 1.56821927147 108% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.04703832753 1.99336655568 103% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.462972869281 0.317803793328 146% => OK
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.