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TPO 02 - Question 2 Some college students choose to take courses in a variety of subject areas in order to get a broad education. Others choose to focus on a single subject area in order to have a deeper understanding of that area.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-12-03 | lamiskhoury | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-10 | pashmina hira | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-07-30 | minaaminaa33 | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-18 | savikx | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-12-01 | JohnNYC | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user bishoy
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- TPO 46 - Question 2Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?People today have healthier lifestyles than people did 100 years ago.Use specific examples and details to support your opinion. 90
- Verbal and Nonverbal Communication When we speak with other people face to face the nonverbal signals we give our facial expressions hand gestures body movements and tone of voice often communicate as much as or more than the words we utter When our nonve 55
- Read the following passage about methane:Methane is a colorless, odorless gas that occurs naturally as a result of the decomposition of plant and animal matters. Methane is a hydrocarbon like coal and oil, and it’s all that remains of long-dead plants, 66
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 550.0 444.711560045 124% => OK
No of words: 141.0 116.580246914 121% => OK
Chars per words: 3.90070921986 3.81502700369 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.44591672665 3.28032121604 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.04663697349 1.8723322822 109% => OK
Unique words: 96.0 76.076318743 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.68085106383 0.655143326166 104% => OK
Syllable count: 180.0 141.574747475 127% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.135842269313 0.0738818816272 184% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 70.5 60.3232687746 117% => OK
STD paragraph length: 32.5 17.3634065801 187% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 23.185 22.9064221017 101% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 9.825 6.49597621602 151% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 18.0 31.1548821549 58% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 7.83333333333 4.0588447711 193% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.84284938099 3.18357895611 184% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.51 1.46810986539 171% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.53545143561 1.01537252472 151% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 19.0 28.6644219978 66% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.72 5.28593714927 70% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.195789473684 0.187982170178 104% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.151390599356 0.154715141812 98% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 40.22 35.408047138 114% => OK
Average word duration: 0.28524822695 0.306236595465 93% => OK
STD word duration: 0.173722618886 0.198589292138 87% => 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: 5.66 5.14435465769 110% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.81 2.80480359147 29% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 46.37 45.0716498316 103% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.03044444444 1.00159221848 103% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.409747681691 0.637764685501 64% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.04075911149 2.58495923209 118% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.07030407591 1.68816559523 123% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.38687220288 2.15290372801 111% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.444542964539 0.343871460585 129% => 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.