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Comments
23 in 30
23 in 30
The introduction is too long: 22 seconds. Try to shorten it to 15-20 seconds.
and the content is not developed so well. read a sample:
In the lecture, the professor talks about entertainment merchandising which is a form of marketing in which the brand or image from one product is also used to sell another.
In the first example, the professor talks about a character called the Action Hero, when he was a kid, the TV show was very popular, so when he and his friends saw little Action Hero figures in the stores, they all had to buy them.
And he talks about his daughter in the second example, her favorite toy is a doll called Rosa, she and her friends play with the doll all the time. Not long ago, the kids discovered that there will be a new TV program which is about Rosa. She and her friends were very excited and all began watching the show.
Hi, sometimes I have the idea
Hi, sometimes I have the idea, but I don't know how to say it in English. Sometimes I know which word to use but I cannot make them into a complete sentence. Or I can make a sentence but with a lot of hesitations. When I see the sample answer, I find that the sentences are so smooth and easy to read. Most of them are basic sentences, not fancy. But all of them are very clear. Something I can do to develop sentence like it?
Yes, you can. You are doing
Yes, you can. You are doing greatly. We don't deliberately do something to make the speeches fancy. We only need to express whatever we heard in a right way like this sample. Compare your speech to this sample, we can figure out that sometimes your speech is wordy (specially in the introduction), or sometimes it is a little bit away the main topic, or it is not in the right order. They are not big issues, but you can do better.
Listen to this user who got 29 in speaking:
http://www.testbig.com/users/bigzee
he speaks in a normal speed, and he has hesitations too, but the best attribute for him is 'sticky'. No extra words.
And this sample is in a written language, not a spoken one. Look:
In the lecture, the professor talks about entertainment merchandising which is a form of marketing in which the brand or image from one product is also used to sell another.
So we don't need to speak like this sample exactly, we only need to speak better than other users.
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 648.0 592.248995984 109% => OK
No of words: 160.0 155.574297189 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.05 3.80514564318 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55655882008 3.525876923 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.11778185845 1.79077849142 118% => OK
Unique words: 101.0 93.7148594378 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.63125 0.604071249207 104% => OK
Syllable count: 206.1 185.844578313 111% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.189201235333 0.0650381309087 291% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.35341365462 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 160.0 68.503853103 234% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 59.17 25.9943957902 228% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 7.84667146824 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 31.0 42.0642570281 74% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.16129032258 4.02192344571 128% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.00883519559 3.1217529195 128% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.86161290323 1.45093177766 128% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.23698931274 0.99851816184 124% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 28.0 39.0421686747 72% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.3 7.12997991968 102% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.260714285714 0.185688545393 140% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.180830002477 0.155154303396 117% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.34 47.1480722892 103% => OK
Average word duration: 0.302125 0.305395592593 99% => OK
STD word duration: 0.16087801085 0.189427763521 85% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 7.94979919679 88% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.02 6.2937751004 80% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.57 3.39508032129 46% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.17 59.7592369478 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.986166666667 0.995987282463 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.473212776745 0.656000678711 72% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.70407300997 2.60215298798 104% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.70694608754 1.56821927147 109% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.08936698386 1.99336655568 105% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.46536836875 0.317803793328 146% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.