Some people prefer to learn about current events from watching television news programs . Others prefer to read about current events in newspapers or on the internet ,Which do you think is better : watching the news or reading the news? Explain why.

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Some people prefer to learn about current events from watching television news programs . Others prefer to read about current events in newspapers or on the internet ,Which do you think is better : watching the news or reading the news? Explain why.

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Comments

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 415.0 444.711560045 93% => OK
No of words: 118.0 116.580246914 101% => OK
Chars per words: 3.51694915254 3.81502700369 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.29587325169 3.28032121604 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.51675976471 1.8723322822 81% => OK
Unique words: 75.0 76.076318743 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.635593220339 0.655143326166 97% => OK
Syllable count: 132.3 141.574747475 93% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.00646256700799 0.0738818816272 9% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 3.20202020202 187% => OK
Average paragraph length: 19.6666666667 60.3232687746 33% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 14.7723465374 17.3634065801 85% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 8.09666666667 22.9064221017 35% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.38937741199 6.49597621602 83% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 42.0 31.1548821549 135% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.80952380952 4.0588447711 69% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.27028522687 3.18357895611 71% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.08928571429 1.46810986539 74% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.597767245901 1.01537252472 59% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 38.0 28.6644219978 133% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.43 5.28593714927 141% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.195526315789 0.187982170178 104% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.224402098785 0.154715141812 145% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 36.19 35.408047138 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.306694915254 0.306236595465 100% => OK
STD word duration: 0.157937206385 0.198589292138 80% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 6.3164983165 127% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.63 5.14435465769 109% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.34 2.80480359147 119% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 48.58 45.0716498316 108% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.07955555556 1.00159221848 108% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.782214903252 0.637764685501 123% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.42898312063 2.58495923209 94% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.54384520379 1.68816559523 91% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.07239568942 2.15290372801 96% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.283038898305 0.343871460585 82% => OK

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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.