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Choose one of the following transportation vehicles and explain why you think it has changed people’s lives.
automobiles or bicycles or airplanes
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-18 | Navis | 65.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-11-19 | TakeAway | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-27 | maryam_torabi | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user maryam_torabi
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- TPO-40 task-3 60
- Some people think that family members are the most important influence on young adults. Others believe that friends are the most important influence. Which do you agree with? Explain why. 50
- Tpo 39Students who live off-campus often get to campus by car. I propose that the university create a student ride-sharing program, where students who live in the same area would form groups of four with each group driving to campus together in one car. T 50
- Do you prefer study with a group or study alone? 73
- Some students prefer to choose a career before getting into college. Other students prefer to choose a career after taking some university courses. Which one do you prefer and why? Please use specific reasons and examples to support your response 66
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 359.0 444.711560045 81% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 102.0 116.580246914 87% => 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: 3.51960784314 3.81502700369 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.17797182781 3.28032121604 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.55128278453 1.8723322822 83% => OK
Unique words: 75.0 76.076318743 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.735294117647 0.655143326166 112% => OK
Syllable count: 122.4 141.574747475 86% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0758537114802 0.0738818816272 103% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 3.20202020202 187% => OK
Average paragraph length: 17.0 60.3232687746 28% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 15.3622914957 17.3634065801 88% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 8.645 22.9064221017 38% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 8.35943130043 6.49597621602 129% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 45.0 31.1548821549 144% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.26666666667 4.0588447711 56% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.58324561161 3.18357895611 50% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.08133333333 1.46810986539 74% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.627908698246 1.01537252472 62% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 42.0 28.6644219978 147% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 11.92 5.28593714927 226% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.28380952381 0.187982170178 151% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.284261385256 0.154715141812 184% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 35.49 35.408047138 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.347941176471 0.306236595465 114% => OK
STD word duration: 0.203114660149 0.198589292138 102% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 13.0 6.3164983165 206% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 9.7 5.14435465769 189% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.96 2.80480359147 106% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 51.87 45.0716498316 115% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.15266666667 1.00159221848 115% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.80971659919 0.637764685501 127% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 1.96645459803 2.58495923209 76% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.44592249855 1.68816559523 86% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.11327134404 2.15290372801 98% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.341252784314 0.343871460585 99% => 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.