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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.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 553.0 444.711560045 124% => OK
No of words: 151.0 116.580246914 130% => OK
Chars per words: 3.66225165563 3.81502700369 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.50545371207 3.28032121604 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.58171429013 1.8723322822 84% => OK
Unique words: 97.0 76.076318743 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.64238410596 0.655143326166 98% => OK
Syllable count: 180.9 141.574747475 128% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0566450879155 0.0738818816272 77% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 76.0 60.3232687746 126% => OK
STD paragraph length: 75.0 17.3634065801 432% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 24.035 22.9064221017 105% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 23.875 6.49597621602 368% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 22.0 31.1548821549 71% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.86363636364 4.0588447711 169% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 6.33385890236 3.18357895611 199% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.12727272727 1.46810986539 145% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.58622244748 1.01537252472 156% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 23.0 28.6644219978 80% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.19 5.28593714927 79% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.182173913043 0.187982170178 97% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.148058640608 0.154715141812 96% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 40.83 35.408047138 115% => OK
Average word duration: 0.270397350993 0.306236595465 88% => OK
STD word duration: 0.154704935108 0.198589292138 78% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 6.3164983165 95% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.44 5.14435465769 86% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.25 2.80480359147 45% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 48.07 45.0716498316 107% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.06822222222 1.00159221848 107% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.478468899522 0.637764685501 75% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.14125234034 2.58495923209 122% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.01789057624 1.68816559523 120% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.37570413911 2.15290372801 110% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.352632278146 0.343871460585 103% => 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.