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Some people think that materials printed on paper, such as books and newspapers, will one day be replaced by electronic versions of those materials. Others believe that printed materials will always be popular. Which point of view do you agree with? Explain why.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2018-05-29 | Elena Cristina | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-12 | Aftab1 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-07 | farshad_hom | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-07 | qbuer | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-03-01 | mgrajapt | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user brk1
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 586.0 444.711560045 132% => OK
No of words: 157.0 116.580246914 135% => OK
Chars per words: 3.73248407643 3.81502700369 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.53976893118 3.28032121604 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.91335289664 1.8723322822 102% => OK
Unique words: 94.0 76.076318743 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59872611465 0.655143326166 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 193.5 141.574747475 137% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0831172745391 0.0738818816272 113% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 3.20202020202 187% => OK
Average paragraph length: 26.1666666667 60.3232687746 43% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 18.6941761579 17.3634065801 108% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 9.17666666667 22.9064221017 40% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 6.2518628335 6.49597621602 96% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 34.0 31.1548821549 109% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.61764705882 4.0588447711 114% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.63477542164 3.18357895611 83% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.55029411765 1.46810986539 106% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.769145764867 1.01537252472 76% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 30.0 28.6644219978 105% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.89 5.28593714927 111% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.196333333333 0.187982170178 104% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.136710968429 0.154715141812 88% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.21 35.408047138 128% => OK
Average word duration: 0.287961783439 0.306236595465 94% => OK
STD word duration: 0.161611072229 0.198589292138 81% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 6.3164983165 111% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.16 5.14435465769 100% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.01 2.80480359147 72% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 55.06 45.0716498316 122% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.22355555556 1.00159221848 122% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.544860152561 0.637764685501 85% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.8514347984 2.58495923209 110% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.70722847802 1.68816559523 101% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.07918602079 2.15290372801 97% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.347217254777 0.343871460585 101% => OK
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The speech is either too short or too long. It should be in 45 seconds.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.