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Some people prefer to take a long vacation while others prefer to take several short vacations, which do you prefer and why? Include details and examples to support your explanation.
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This speaking topic by users
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-07-08 | Elena Cristina | 78.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-12-26 | jags3184 | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Elena Cristina
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- Some people prefer living in a big city. Other people prefer living in the countryside, away from urban areas. Which do you think is better? Explain why using specific details in your explanation. 70
- The speakers discuss two possible solutions to the woman’s problem. Briefly summarize the problem. Then state which should solution you recommend and explain why. 81
- Which do you think is more helpful to the students: internet materials or textbook materials, why do you think so? Include details and examples to support your explanation. 66
- Explain how the example from the lecture illustrates the concept of swarm intelligence. 76
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 395.0 444.711560045 89% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 121.0 116.580246914 104% => OK
Chars per words: 3.26446280992 3.81502700369 86% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.31662479036 3.28032121604 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.4869603753 1.8723322822 79% => Word Length is similar.
Unique words: 77.0 76.076318743 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.636363636364 0.655143326166 97% => OK
Syllable count: 128.7 141.574747475 91% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.00882247482778 0.0738818816272 12% => 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: 3.0 3.20202020202 94% => OK
Average paragraph length: 40.3333333333 60.3232687746 67% => OK
STD paragraph length: 36.0123435629 17.3634065801 207% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 14.5133333333 22.9064221017 63% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 12.8826403436 6.49597621602 198% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 22.0 31.1548821549 71% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.5 4.0588447711 136% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 6.56955789297 3.18357895611 206% => The length of acoustic sentences changes so often.
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.92272727273 1.46810986539 131% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 2.00067984313 1.01537252472 197% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 18.0 28.6644219978 63% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.12 5.28593714927 78% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.228888888889 0.187982170178 122% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.233925175332 0.154715141812 151% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 36.5 35.408047138 103% => OK
Average word duration: 0.301652892562 0.306236595465 99% => OK
STD word duration: 0.153075075339 0.198589292138 77% => 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: 4.16 5.14435465769 81% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.49 2.80480359147 53% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 43.54 45.0716498316 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.967555555556 1.00159221848 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.413412953606 0.637764685501 65% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.77905374368 2.58495923209 108% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.76848874598 1.68816559523 105% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.1095890411 2.15290372801 98% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.326853958678 0.343871460585 95% => OK
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.