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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-08 | bishoy | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-01 | mehrnazsadr | 85.00 | Check this speaking |
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- 1. Talk about a specific time when you did something obsessively. For example, didyou “go to extremes” playing video games, worrying about an exam, or practicing asport or music? What did you do? What were the good and bad results? Explain. 50
- TPO 48 - Question 2 Some people like to shop in large grocery stores and department stores. Other people prefer to shop in small specialty stores or shops. Which do you prefer? Explain why. 90
- TPO 31 - Question 1 Parents need to make sure their children lead healthy lives. What can parents do to help their children have healthy lifestyles? 95
- TPO 46 - Question 1 Talk about one way in which you have benefited from using the Internet. Use specific examples and details in your response. 90
- TPO 31 - Question 1 Parents need to make sure their children lead healthy lives. What can parents do to help their children have healthy lifestyles? 90
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 686.0 593.389002037 116% => OK
No of words: 167.0 154.784114053 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.10778443114 3.82920900774 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.59483629437 3.52088357496 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.26409078159 1.81998168104 124% => OK
Unique words: 103.0 93.7942973523 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.616766467066 0.608046397892 101% => OK
Syllable count: 205.2 185.724439919 110% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.104177173584 0.0833886788687 125% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.90020366599 26% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 167.0 71.3690273242 234% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 24.1299301424 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 60.37 26.8388033085 225% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 8.89323425527 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 31.0 40.266802444 77% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.38709677419 4.20756893501 128% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.06144277046 3.23972648638 125% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.90935483871 1.51236819293 126% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.09796567161 1.0352206224 106% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 22.0 37.9022403259 58% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 2.07 7.22384928717 29% => Still need a very little pause between two words.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.0940909090909 0.193825474362 49% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.0820010582476 0.16431695912 50% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 52.4 46.6644602851 112% => OK
Average word duration: 0.31377245509 0.304040633073 103% => OK
STD word duration: 0.195321374256 0.193491353168 101% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 12.0 8.88594704684 135% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 10.05 6.97134419552 144% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.88 3.21433808554 121% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.37 59.1375356415 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.00616666667 0.985625594026 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.364419413616 0.643888735843 57% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.76627463972 2.61565628039 106% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.70614543648 1.58604529434 108% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.96564885496 2.01333574461 98% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.364962964072 0.322651457988 113% => OK
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.