Some people prefer reading newspapers or magazines to get news; others prefer watching television or listening to radio to get news. Which way do you prefer and why?

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Some people prefer reading newspapers or magazines to get news; others prefer watching television or listening to radio to get news. Which way do you prefer and why?

Some people prefer reading newspapers or magazines to get news; others prefer watching television or listening to radio to get news. Which way do you prefer and why?

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Comments

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 401.0 444.711560045 90% => OK
No of words: 117.0 116.580246914 100% => OK
Chars per words: 3.42735042735 3.81502700369 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.28886816799 3.28032121604 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.56519974595 1.8723322822 84% => OK
Unique words: 80.0 76.076318743 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.683760683761 0.655143326166 104% => OK
Syllable count: 133.2 141.574747475 94% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.100373918562 0.0738818816272 136% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 3.20202020202 125% => OK
Average paragraph length: 29.25 60.3232687746 48% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 31.1157114654 17.3634065801 179% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 10.925 22.9064221017 48% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 10.881981667 6.49597621602 168% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 30.0 31.1548821549 96% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.9 4.0588447711 96% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.3 3.18357895611 72% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.34233333333 1.46810986539 91% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.634994400675 1.01537252472 63% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 27.0 28.6644219978 94% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.61 5.28593714927 125% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.244814814815 0.187982170178 130% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.157135713233 0.154715141812 102% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 31.66 35.408047138 89% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.270598290598 0.306236595465 88% => OK
STD word duration: 0.163332237559 0.198589292138 82% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 6.3164983165 95% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.06 5.14435465769 79% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.9 2.80480359147 139% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 43.7 45.0716498316 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.971111111111 1.00159221848 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.617848970252 0.637764685501 97% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.67734553776 2.58495923209 104% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.83066361556 1.68816559523 108% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.52684775742 2.15290372801 117% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.518265606838 0.343871460585 151% => OK

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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.