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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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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-22 | Seema Modak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-12 | Seema Modak | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-23 | Bobby1987 | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-10-27 | nasimn | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-08-27 | SaniyaYesmin | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user chandr
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 492.0 444.711560045 111% => OK
No of words: 131.0 116.580246914 112% => OK
Chars per words: 3.75572519084 3.81502700369 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.38312328216 3.28032121604 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.95401955288 1.8723322822 104% => OK
Unique words: 88.0 76.076318743 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.671755725191 0.655143326166 103% => OK
Syllable count: 158.4 141.574747475 112% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0725057847504 0.0738818816272 98% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 131.0 60.3232687746 217% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 43.59 22.9064221017 190% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 24.0 31.1548821549 77% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.45833333333 4.0588447711 134% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.96638002529 3.18357895611 156% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.78791666667 1.46810986539 122% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.34878024886 1.01537252472 133% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 26.0 28.6644219978 91% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.44 5.28593714927 84% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.170769230769 0.187982170178 91% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.104657796833 0.154715141812 68% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.11 35.408047138 105% => OK
Average word duration: 0.283282442748 0.306236595465 93% => OK
STD word duration: 0.160972439669 0.198589292138 81% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 6.3164983165 79% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.73 5.14435465769 73% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.46 2.80480359147 16% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 43.59 45.0716498316 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.968666666667 1.00159221848 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.596467079605 0.637764685501 94% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.00527643955 2.58495923209 116% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.01881165405 1.68816559523 120% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.37132848289 2.15290372801 110% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.302846129771 0.343871460585 88% => 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.