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Choose a place you go to often that is important to you and explain why it is important. Please include specific details in your explanation.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-01 | Anonymous (not verified) | Check this speaking | |
| 2017-07-29 | ahmad.kewan | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-10-11 | EllaK | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-18 | biol | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-28 | Mennatallah | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
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- Many universities now offer academic courses over the Internet. However, some people still prefer learning in traditional classrooms. Which do you think is better? Explain why.
- You will now read a short passage and listen to a lecture on the same topic. You will then be asked a question about themIn everyday life, when people speak of memory, they are almost always speaking about what psychologists would call explicit memories. 60
- You will now read a short passage and listen to a conversation on the same topic The recreational services department will receive special funding from this year s budget to increase the number of exercise machines in the campus gym The increase is in res 75
- Some people feel they perform better when they have to finish by a strict time. Others feel they do better work if they do not have time pressure. Which best describes you? Explain why. 57
- Male student Carrie, how come I always see you eating in the cafeteria lately? Didn’t you tell me you had a kitchen in your dorm and you were gonna start to . . .Female student Uh-huh . . . and I was gonna start cooking my own meals there.Male student S 50
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 508.0 444.711560045 114% => OK
No of words: 134.0 116.580246914 115% => OK
Chars per words: 3.79104477612 3.81502700369 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.40232815919 3.28032121604 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.65752299849 1.8723322822 89% => OK
Unique words: 92.0 76.076318743 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.686567164179 0.655143326166 105% => OK
Syllable count: 154.8 141.574747475 109% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.175457557823 0.0738818816272 237% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 67.0 60.3232687746 111% => OK
STD paragraph length: 66.0 17.3634065801 380% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 25.07 22.9064221017 109% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 23.58 6.49597621602 363% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 28.0 31.1548821549 90% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.78571428571 4.0588447711 118% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.20967261404 3.18357895611 69% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.54464285714 1.46810986539 105% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.748858570201 1.01537252472 74% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 38.0 28.6644219978 133% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 10.83 5.28593714927 205% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.285 0.187982170178 152% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.305930418646 0.154715141812 198% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 36.38 35.408047138 103% => OK
Average word duration: 0.271492537313 0.306236595465 89% => OK
STD word duration: 0.154960310097 0.198589292138 78% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 6.3164983165 79% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.7 5.14435465769 72% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.19 2.80480359147 42% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 50.14 45.0716498316 111% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.11422222222 1.00159221848 111% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.757877941763 0.637764685501 119% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.67251695253 2.58495923209 103% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.83486238532 1.68816559523 109% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.52886201209 2.15290372801 117% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.28057119403 0.343871460585 82% => OK
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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 45 seconds.
Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.