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Sociobiologists believe that some communicative behavior in animals is developed through a process called ritualization. In this process, the purpose of a given behavior changes over time—a behavior that originally had a practical purpose develops into one that communicates a specific message. For example, a certain movement or physical feature might evolve to serve as a signal or a warning that other animals will understand. Once a behavior is ritualized, it becomes a form of communication; therefore, if an animal engages in this behavior, other animals will be able to interpret the meaning of the behavior quickly and respond appropriately.
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| 2019-12-26 | bishoy | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user ajulyav
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 688.0 592.248995984 116% => OK
No of words: 164.0 155.574297189 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.19512195122 3.80514564318 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.57858190836 3.525876923 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.17770871079 1.79077849142 122% => OK
Unique words: 100.0 93.7148594378 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.609756097561 0.604071249207 101% => OK
Syllable count: 216.0 185.844578313 116% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0127636623878 0.0650381309087 20% => 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: 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: 54.94 25.9943957902 211% => 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: 27.0 42.0642570281 64% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.07407407407 4.02192344571 151% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.98832656514 3.1217529195 160% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.01 1.45093177766 139% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.39859188445 0.99851816184 140% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 23.0 39.0421686747 59% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.42 7.12997991968 48% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.148695652174 0.185688545393 80% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.149180496097 0.155154303396 96% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.71 47.1480722892 101% => OK
Average word duration: 0.290914634146 0.305395592593 95% => OK
STD word duration: 0.166146475284 0.189427763521 88% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 7.94979919679 63% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.73 6.2937751004 59% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.88 3.39508032129 55% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 54.94 59.7592369478 92% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.915666666667 0.995987282463 92% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.418638514743 0.656000678711 64% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.98507462687 2.60215298798 115% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.82016745541 1.56821927147 116% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.09599664641 1.99336655568 105% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.448064609756 0.317803793328 141% => OK
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.