TPO 34 - Question 4 The Familiarity Principle People tend to develop a preference for things they have previously encountered, things they are familiar with. Social psychologists refer to this tendency as the familiarity principle. Given a choice between

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 620.0 592.248995984 105% => OK
No of words: 164.0 155.574297189 105% => OK
Chars per words: 3.78048780488 3.80514564318 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.57858190836 3.525876923 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.84803382825 1.79077849142 103% => OK
Unique words: 109.0 93.7148594378 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.664634146341 0.604071249207 110% => OK
Syllable count: 186.3 185.844578313 100% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.19417670683 92% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.167949580075 0.0650381309087 258% => 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: 164.0 68.503853103 239% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 60.0 25.9943957902 231% => 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: 34.0 42.0642570281 81% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.82352941176 4.02192344571 120% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.21275571869 3.1217529195 103% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.72029411765 1.45093177766 119% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.0031347493 0.99851816184 100% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 33.0 39.0421686747 85% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.53 7.12997991968 120% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.258484848485 0.185688545393 139% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.237513906606 0.155154303396 153% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 46.68 47.1480722892 99% => OK
Average word duration: 0.284634146341 0.305395592593 93% => OK
STD word duration: 0.13591779368 0.189427763521 72% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 7.94979919679 75% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.8 6.2937751004 60% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.78 3.39508032129 82% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.0 59.7592369478 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.0 0.995987282463 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.55 0.656000678711 84% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.73333333333 2.60215298798 105% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.81666666667 1.56821927147 116% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.33504712939 1.99336655568 117% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.34070997561 0.317803793328 107% => 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.