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Some people believe that television has had a positive influence on society. Others
believe it has had a negative influence on society. Which do you agree with and why?
Use details and examples to explain your opinion.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-18 | sinahector | Check this speaking | |
| 2019-08-31 | Christine hanna | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2020-01-14 | brk1 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 424.0 444.711560045 95% => OK
No of words: 99.0 116.580246914 85% => 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: 4.28282828283 3.81502700369 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.15434214553 3.28032121604 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.01529707583 1.8723322822 108% => OK
Unique words: 75.0 76.076318743 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.757575757576 0.655143326166 116% => OK
Syllable count: 126.9 141.574747475 90% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0431077916731 0.0738818816272 58% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 116.0 60.3232687746 192% => OK
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 46.08 22.9064221017 201% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 25.0 31.1548821549 80% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.96 4.0588447711 98% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.89337899517 3.18357895611 122% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.5828 1.46810986539 108% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.1713667914 1.01537252472 115% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 25.0 28.6644219978 87% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.28 5.28593714927 100% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.2112 0.187982170178 112% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.180051548174 0.154715141812 116% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 33.53 35.408047138 95% => OK
Average word duration: 0.338686868687 0.306236595465 111% => OK
STD word duration: 0.195477382322 0.198589292138 98% => 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: 5.0 5.14435465769 97% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.05 2.80480359147 2% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 46.08 45.0716498316 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.024 1.00159221848 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.542534722222 0.637764685501 85% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.1484375 2.58495923209 83% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.62760416667 1.68816559523 96% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.23680286311 2.15290372801 104% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.373117777778 0.343871460585 109% => 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.