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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.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-30 | kap | 56.67 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-30 | kap | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 515.0 444.711560045 116% => OK
No of words: 150.0 116.580246914 129% => OK
Chars per words: 3.43333333333 3.81502700369 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.49963551158 3.28032121604 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.68292074152 1.8723322822 90% => OK
Unique words: 83.0 76.076318743 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.553333333333 0.655143326166 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 163.8 141.574747475 116% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0652906774684 0.0738818816272 88% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 3.20202020202 187% => OK
Average paragraph length: 25.0 60.3232687746 41% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 13.0639452948 17.3634065801 75% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 9.95833333333 22.9064221017 43% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 5.21624199549 6.49597621602 80% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 62.0 31.1548821549 199% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.41935483871 4.0588447711 60% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.69008863193 3.18357895611 53% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 0.890967741935 1.46810986539 61% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.519316267852 1.01537252472 51% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 67.0 28.6644219978 234% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 11.47 5.28593714927 217% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.171194029851 0.187982170178 91% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.125811068825 0.154715141812 81% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 42.28 35.408047138 119% => OK
Average word duration: 0.281866666667 0.306236595465 92% => OK
STD word duration: 0.137639077139 0.198589292138 69% => 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: 3.49 5.14435465769 68% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.7 2.80480359147 132% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.75 45.0716498316 133% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.32777777778 1.00159221848 133% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 1.12133891213 0.637764685501 176% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.51046025105 2.58495923209 97% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.38912133891 1.68816559523 82% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.96310312204 2.15290372801 91% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.24963442 0.343871460585 73% => OK
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The speech is either too short or too long. It should be in 45 seconds.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.