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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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| 2019-12-06 | realbe | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2020-01-11 | brk1 | Check this speaking | |
| 2016-10-26 | SheLaya | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-23 | Mennatallah | 33.33 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-23 | Mennatallah | 56.67 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user prayashpathak
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 600.0 444.711560045 135% => OK
No of words: 150.0 116.580246914 129% => OK
Chars per words: 4.0 3.81502700369 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.49963551158 3.28032121604 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.06236110643 1.8723322822 110% => OK
Unique words: 91.0 76.076318743 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.606666666667 0.655143326166 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 182.7 141.574747475 129% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0718591225917 0.0738818816272 97% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 3.20202020202 125% => OK
Average paragraph length: 38.0 60.3232687746 63% => OK
STD paragraph length: 40.7062648741 17.3634065801 234% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 11.6675 22.9064221017 51% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 11.8039895269 6.49597621602 182% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 26.0 31.1548821549 83% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.76923076923 4.0588447711 142% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.83298111081 3.18357895611 183% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.70423076923 1.46810986539 116% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.47184126725 1.01537252472 145% => 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: 5.91 5.28593714927 112% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.227307692308 0.187982170178 121% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.185566859034 0.154715141812 120% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 36.92 35.408047138 104% => OK
Average word duration: 0.246133333333 0.306236595465 80% => OK
STD word duration: 0.145225280934 0.198589292138 73% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 3.0 6.3164983165 47% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.29 5.14435465769 45% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.04 2.80480359147 73% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 46.67 45.0716498316 104% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.03711111111 1.00159221848 104% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.557103064067 0.637764685501 87% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.21405613885 2.58495923209 124% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.94986072423 1.68816559523 116% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.46478873239 2.15290372801 114% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.402575973333 0.343871460585 117% => OK
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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 45 seconds.
Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.