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Some people prefer to learn about current events from watching television news programs . Others prefer to read about current events in newspapers or on the internet. Which do you think is better : watching the news or reading the news? Explain why.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-07 | chandr | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-05-03 | dadfarfardad361 | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-03-02 | -vv- | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-22 | Seema Modak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-08-01 | mgrajapt | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Elena Cristina
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- If you are going to choose a roommate which of the following qualities is the most important to you 1 Cleanness 2 Friendliness 3 Quietness 97
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 302.0 444.711560045 68% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 91.0 116.580246914 78% => 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: 3.31868131868 3.81502700369 87% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.08859061939 3.28032121604 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.53264205465 1.8723322822 82% => OK
Unique words: 60.0 76.076318743 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.659340659341 0.655143326166 101% => OK
Syllable count: 97.2 141.574747475 69% => The syllable count is low.
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0 0.0738818816272 0% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 3.20202020202 187% => OK
Average paragraph length: 15.1666666667 60.3232687746 25% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 12.4286854583 17.3634065801 72% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 7.185 22.9064221017 31% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.42185930593 6.49597621602 83% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 49.0 31.1548821549 157% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 1.85714285714 4.0588447711 46% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.10656667034 3.18357895611 35% => The length of acoustic sentences keeps same.
Average acoustic sentences duration: 0.748571428571 1.46810986539 51% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.464358236094 1.01537252472 46% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 52.0 28.6644219978 181% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.71 5.28593714927 146% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.148269230769 0.187982170178 79% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.140858919516 0.154715141812 91% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 28.13 35.408047138 79% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.309120879121 0.306236595465 101% => OK
STD word duration: 0.22269897068 0.198589292138 112% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 6.3164983165 127% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.71 5.14435465769 130% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 5.66 2.80480359147 202% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 43.11 45.0716498316 96% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.958 1.00159221848 96% => OK
Rate of silence: 1.20621665507 0.637764685501 189% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.11087914637 2.58495923209 82% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.39178844816 1.68816559523 82% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.13295414149 2.15290372801 99% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.174453043956 0.343871460585 51% => It may have issues on recording quality or you may have pronounciation issues.
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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.