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Your university plans to open a cafe inside the campus library. Do you think this is a good idea? Explain why or why not.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-11-10 | ajulyav | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-03-08 | Toefl2016 | 83.33 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-07-26 | Mrudula | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-08 | mehrnazsadr | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-26 | Mennatallah | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 489.0 444.711560045 110% => OK
No of words: 120.0 116.580246914 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.075 3.81502700369 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.30975091965 3.28032121604 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.16472669561 1.8723322822 116% => OK
Unique words: 84.0 76.076318743 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.7 0.655143326166 107% => OK
Syllable count: 157.5 141.574747475 111% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0540209376237 0.0738818816272 73% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 60.0 60.3232687746 99% => OK
STD paragraph length: 11.0 17.3634065801 63% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 21.83 22.9064221017 95% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 4.85 6.49597621602 75% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 21.0 31.1548821549 67% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.71428571429 4.0588447711 141% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.88087934492 3.18357895611 122% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.04523809524 1.46810986539 139% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.16840802987 1.01537252472 115% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 15.0 28.6644219978 52% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 1.72 5.28593714927 33% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.114666666667 0.187982170178 61% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.116839871429 0.154715141812 76% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 38.69 35.408047138 109% => OK
Average word duration: 0.322416666667 0.306236595465 105% => OK
STD word duration: 0.180610058013 0.198589292138 91% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 10.0 6.3164983165 158% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.19 5.14435465769 140% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.83 2.80480359147 65% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 43.66 45.0716498316 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.970222222222 1.00159221848 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.343563902886 0.637764685501 54% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.74851122309 2.58495923209 106% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.92395785616 1.68816559523 114% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.17110364435 2.15290372801 101% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.451303791667 0.343871460585 131% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.