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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 |
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| 2019-11-24 | bijan54 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-01-03 | mgrajapt | Check this speaking | |
| 2019-10-20 | shrijan | Check this speaking | |
| 2016-08-30 | mgrajapt | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-27 | sarasafizadeh | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 479.0 444.711560045 108% => OK
No of words: 120.0 116.580246914 103% => OK
Chars per words: 3.99166666667 3.81502700369 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.30975091965 3.28032121604 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.07964673816 1.8723322822 111% => OK
Unique words: 82.0 76.076318743 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.683333333333 0.655143326166 104% => OK
Syllable count: 158.4 141.574747475 112% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.191780063522 0.0738818816272 260% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 3.20202020202 187% => OK
Average paragraph length: 20.0 60.3232687746 33% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 6.11010092661 17.3634065801 35% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 7.19833333333 22.9064221017 31% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 2.81310869956 6.49597621602 43% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 21.0 31.1548821549 67% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.71428571429 4.0588447711 141% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.3659162257 3.18357895611 137% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.94571428571 1.46810986539 133% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.32765303639 1.01537252472 131% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 16.0 28.6644219978 56% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 2.39 5.28593714927 45% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.149375 0.187982170178 79% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.133344888822 0.154715141812 86% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 36.67 35.408047138 104% => OK
Average word duration: 0.305583333333 0.306236595465 100% => OK
STD word duration: 0.168091224406 0.198589292138 85% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 6.3164983165 111% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.98 5.14435465769 97% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.68 2.80480359147 96% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 43.19 45.0716498316 96% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.959777777778 1.00159221848 96% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.370456124103 0.637764685501 58% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.77842093077 2.58495923209 107% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.89858763603 1.68816559523 112% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.23616034906 2.15290372801 104% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.505084208333 0.343871460585 147% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.