TPO 48 - Question 4 Optimal Foraging Food provides animals with the energy they need to survive. However, animals also lose energy in the process of obtaining, or foraging, for food. Therefore, in order to conserve energy, many animals behave in ways that

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 642.0 592.248995984 108% => OK
No of words: 160.0 155.574297189 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.0125 3.80514564318 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55655882008 3.525876923 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.83025783703 1.79077849142 102% => OK
Unique words: 98.0 93.7148594378 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.6125 0.604071249207 101% => OK
Syllable count: 202.5 185.844578313 109% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0398488722572 0.0650381309087 61% => OK

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: 59.59 25.9943957902 229% => 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: 49.0 42.0642570281 116% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.26530612245 4.02192344571 81% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.31917921973 3.1217529195 74% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.18367346939 1.45093177766 82% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.720257022938 0.99851816184 72% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 48.0 39.0421686747 123% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.97 7.12997991968 98% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.145208333333 0.185688545393 78% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.122440284481 0.155154303396 79% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.89 47.1480722892 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.2993125 0.305395592593 98% => OK
STD word duration: 0.175805723296 0.189427763521 93% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 7.94979919679 113% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.73 6.2937751004 107% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.55 3.39508032129 75% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.59 59.7592369478 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.993166666667 0.995987282463 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.805504279241 0.656000678711 123% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.68501426414 2.60215298798 103% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.64457123678 1.56821927147 105% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.04635623303 1.99336655568 103% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.39522135625 0.317803793328 124% => OK

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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.