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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-07-20 | Valeria1949 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-08-26 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-31 | bishoy | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-12-07 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-28 | Taniazehra | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 474.0 444.711560045 107% => OK
No of words: 114.0 116.580246914 98% => 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: 4.15789473684 3.81502700369 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.26757987692 3.28032121604 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51514342435 1.8723322822 134% => OK
Unique words: 80.0 76.076318743 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.701754385965 0.655143326166 107% => OK
Syllable count: 148.5 141.574747475 105% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.229737218882 0.0738818816272 311% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.20202020202 94% => OK
Average paragraph length: 38.3333333333 60.3232687746 64% => OK
STD paragraph length: 34.9221356099 17.3634065801 201% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 15.2633333333 22.9064221017 67% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 14.4700894568 6.49597621602 223% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 16.0 31.1548821549 51% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 7.125 4.0588447711 176% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.67210770539 3.18357895611 115% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.665 1.46810986539 182% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.19141722331 1.01537252472 117% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 7.0 28.6644219978 24% => Need to have little pauses between words/sentences.
Total acoustic silence duration: 2.7 5.28593714927 51% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.385714285714 0.187982170178 205% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.433519060146 0.154715141812 280% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.15 35.408047138 105% => OK
Average word duration: 0.325877192982 0.306236595465 106% => OK
STD word duration: 0.195240793316 0.198589292138 98% => 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: 6.39 5.14435465769 124% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.59 2.80480359147 164% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.79 45.0716498316 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.01755555556 1.00159221848 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.152871806071 0.637764685501 24% => More acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.48962655602 2.58495923209 96% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.7471063551 1.68816559523 103% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.1534320323 2.15290372801 100% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.417960219298 0.343871460585 122% => OK
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.