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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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- If friends from another country were going to spend time in your country, what city or place would you suggest they visit? Using details and examples, explain why. 90
- The final project for this course will be an oral presentation. Students must work with an assigned partner to select a topic and complete all related research for the project. The partners will orally present their research to the class during the last t 83
- animal navigation 90
- TPO 51- Q6Using the example of baboons from the lecture, explain two ways in which display behavior can help animals maintain group unity. 85
- What characteristic in a house or apartment do you think is the most important for making it a good place to live? Choose one quality or characteristic. Explain why you think it is important 90
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 579.0 593.389002037 98% => OK
No of words: 138.0 154.784114053 89% => 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: 4.19565217391 3.82920900774 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.42743929552 3.52088357496 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.166472775 1.81998168104 119% => OK
Unique words: 91.0 93.7942973523 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.659420289855 0.608046397892 108% => OK
Syllable count: 190.8 185.724439919 103% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.20224032587 116% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0760649126394 0.0833886788687 91% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 9.0 3.90020366599 231% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 15.3333333333 71.3690273242 21% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 6.05530070819 24.1299301424 25% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 5.90444444444 26.8388033085 22% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 2.33297192968 8.89323425527 26% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 26.0 40.266802444 65% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.30769230769 4.20756893501 126% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.99703995981 3.23972648638 93% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.88461538462 1.51236819293 125% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.982928242037 1.0352206224 95% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 21.0 37.9022403259 55% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.07 7.22384928717 70% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.241428571429 0.193825474362 125% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.1903201742 0.16431695912 116% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 42.69 46.6644602851 91% => OK
Average word duration: 0.309347826087 0.304040633073 102% => OK
STD word duration: 0.183268261924 0.193491353168 95% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 8.88594704684 90% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.96 6.97134419552 85% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.7 3.21433808554 115% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 53.14 59.1375356415 90% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.885666666667 0.985625594026 90% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.395182536696 0.643888735843 61% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.59691381257 2.61565628039 99% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.71245765901 1.58604529434 108% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.13164675568 2.01333574461 106% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.463226173913 0.322651457988 144% => 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.