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Some people believe it is important for universities to provide funding for student entertainment, such as movies or concerts on campus. Others believe that university money should only be used for academic purposes. Which view do you agree with? Explain why.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2016-09-10 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-06 | strzel.ola | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-21 | Mennatallah | 85.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-12 | mgrajapt | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-10-24 | donya goodarz | Check this speaking |
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- State whether you agree or disagree with the following statement. Then explain your reasons, using specific details in your explanation. Learning through online courses is more effective than learning in the traditional classroom setting. 61
- Some people like to shop in large grocery stores and department stores. Other people prefer to shop in small specialty stores or shops. Which do you prefer? Explain why. 70
- Some people think that college education should be free. Others don’t think so. What is your opinion and why? Please include details and examples in your explanation. 66
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 436.0 444.711560045 98% => OK
No of words: 111.0 116.580246914 95% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.92792792793 3.81502700369 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.24586718041 3.28032121604 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.80445750232 1.8723322822 96% => OK
Unique words: 80.0 76.076318743 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.720720720721 0.655143326166 110% => OK
Syllable count: 144.9 141.574747475 102% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.10582132257 0.0738818816272 143% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 8.0 3.20202020202 250% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 13.875 60.3232687746 23% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 8.59414771807 17.3634065801 49% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 5.63625 22.9064221017 25% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 3.55343825576 6.49597621602 55% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 35.0 31.1548821549 112% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.17142857143 4.0588447711 78% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.82322727475 3.18357895611 89% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.18 1.46810986539 80% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.784703765761 1.01537252472 77% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 34.0 28.6644219978 119% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.73 5.28593714927 127% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.197941176471 0.187982170178 105% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.159738378234 0.154715141812 103% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 33.32 35.408047138 94% => OK
Average word duration: 0.30018018018 0.306236595465 98% => OK
STD word duration: 0.16757400937 0.198589292138 84% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 6.3164983165 63% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.05 5.14435465769 59% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.47 2.80480359147 124% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.09 45.0716498316 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.002 1.00159221848 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.754047460634 0.637764685501 118% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.46174318031 2.58495923209 95% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.77422931914 1.68816559523 105% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.40096038415 2.15290372801 112% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.329406657658 0.343871460585 96% => OK
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.