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TPO 13 - Question 2
When looking for information for a research project, some students prefer to get their information mainly from the Internet. Others prefer to mainly use printed materials such as books and academic journals. Which do you prefer, and why?
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-17 | Seema Modak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-12-07 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-08-05 | Christine hanna | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-04-15 | mgrajapt | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-06-23 | ying.ma | 76.67 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Mortezaa
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 387.0 444.711560045 87% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 98.0 116.580246914 84% => 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: 3.94897959184 3.81502700369 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.14634628365 3.28032121604 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.9450221602 1.8723322822 104% => OK
Unique words: 72.0 76.076318743 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.734693877551 0.655143326166 112% => OK
Syllable count: 124.2 141.574747475 88% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.167683696951 0.0738818816272 227% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 98.0 60.3232687746 162% => OK
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 46.13 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: 37.0 31.1548821549 119% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.64864864865 4.0588447711 65% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.7431908645 3.18357895611 55% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.16567567568 1.46810986539 79% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.714859806859 1.01537252472 70% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 36.0 28.6644219978 126% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.48 5.28593714927 123% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.18 0.187982170178 96% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.153170203079 0.154715141812 99% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 35.51 35.408047138 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.362346938776 0.306236595465 118% => OK
STD word duration: 0.200365996853 0.198589292138 101% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 6.3164983165 142% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.14 5.14435465769 139% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.68 2.80480359147 96% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 46.13 45.0716498316 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.02511111111 1.00159221848 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.780403208324 0.637764685501 122% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.12443095599 2.58495923209 82% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.56080641665 1.68816559523 92% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.02759785976 2.15290372801 94% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.307047785714 0.343871460585 89% => 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.