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Using the examples from the lecture, discuss two types of narrators that an author of fiction might use.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-11 | chandr | 88.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-05-05 | mghcivil | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-18 | Elena Cristina | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-09-23 | may82 | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-29 | Seema Modak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Elena Cristina
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 636.0 578.828451883 110% => OK
No of words: 159.0 151.265690377 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.0 3.82278263415 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55098862472 3.50058242952 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.92957778808 1.80425224433 107% => OK
Unique words: 106.0 92.4686192469 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.666666666667 0.61298525976 109% => OK
Syllable count: 189.9 182.283891213 104% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20543933054 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0913242009132 0.0839705835288 109% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.47071129707 45% => OK
Average paragraph length: 79.5 65.8948926009 121% => OK
STD paragraph length: 67.5 19.7758100068 341% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 29.79 25.5208953607 117% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 24.98 7.49434385956 333% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 28.0 42.9832635983 65% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.67857142857 3.78147595546 150% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.7706912158 2.94285465224 128% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.02285714286 1.39386743896 145% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.18321854382 0.967747756167 122% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 29.0 40.4456066946 72% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.09 7.59280334728 107% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.278965517241 0.19053887516 146% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.186369022651 0.157467062838 118% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.44 46.3453556485 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.298364779874 0.308780311121 97% => OK
STD word duration: 0.162011235785 0.201157623399 81% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 8.09623430962 111% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.65 6.56692468619 101% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.11 3.53066945607 60% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.58 59.5455230126 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.993 0.992425383543 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.486740516952 0.681803438845 71% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.66868076536 2.53813033465 105% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.77912051024 1.55221717717 115% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.23440134907 1.99939622689 112% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.330155352201 0.309613076454 107% => 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.