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When looking for information for a research project, some students prefer to get their information mainly from the Internet. Others prefer to mainly use printed materials such as books and academic journals. Which do you prefer, and why?
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| 2023-02-19 | zaid | Check this speaking | |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 544.0 444.711560045 122% => OK
No of words: 143.0 116.580246914 123% => OK
Chars per words: 3.8041958042 3.81502700369 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.45807182446 3.28032121604 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.90787378912 1.8723322822 102% => OK
Unique words: 94.0 76.076318743 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.657342657343 0.655143326166 100% => OK
Syllable count: 162.9 141.574747475 115% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0647485723062 0.0738818816272 88% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 71.5 60.3232687746 119% => OK
STD paragraph length: 1.5 17.3634065801 9% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 22.76 22.9064221017 99% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.03 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 21.0 31.1548821549 67% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.80952380952 4.0588447711 168% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.68654657726 3.18357895611 147% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.12333333333 1.46810986539 145% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.29798133868 1.01537252472 128% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 23.0 28.6644219978 80% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.17 5.28593714927 60% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.137826086957 0.187982170178 73% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.106687537341 0.154715141812 69% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 40.24 35.408047138 114% => OK
Average word duration: 0.281398601399 0.306236595465 92% => OK
STD word duration: 0.149449345436 0.198589292138 75% => 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: 3.64 5.14435465769 71% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.43 2.80480359147 15% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.52 45.0716498316 101% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.01155555556 1.00159221848 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.505272407733 0.637764685501 79% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.14147627417 2.58495923209 122% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.06502636204 1.68816559523 122% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.33598409543 2.15290372801 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.291071146853 0.343871460585 85% => 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.