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Some people choose to go to a school which is close to home so they can keep their old friends. However, other people like to study far away from home so they can make new friends. Which do you prefer and why?
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-08-29 | kaziass | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-04-29 | Laura123 | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-03-18 | mahabub | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-03-18 | mahabub | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
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- Some people prefer to live in a traditional building. Others prefer modern ones. Which one do you prefer and why? Please give specific reasons to support your idea. 83
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? To protect the health of young children, advertisements for candy and junk food should not be shown on television. Use specific reasons and details in your response.
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 446.0 444.711560045 100% => OK
No of words: 120.0 116.580246914 103% => OK
Chars per words: 3.71666666667 3.81502700369 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.30975091965 3.28032121604 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.64915803434 1.8723322822 88% => OK
Unique words: 81.0 76.076318743 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.675 0.655143326166 103% => OK
Syllable count: 135.0 141.574747475 95% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.131421016555 0.0738818816272 178% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 60.0 60.3232687746 99% => OK
STD paragraph length: 46.0 17.3634065801 265% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 21.82 22.9064221017 95% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 17.54 6.49597621602 270% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 26.0 31.1548821549 83% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.61538461538 4.0588447711 114% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.75271105158 3.18357895611 118% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.59730769231 1.46810986539 109% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.16644943737 1.01537252472 115% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 28.0 28.6644219978 98% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.41 5.28593714927 83% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.1575 0.187982170178 84% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.131138558131 0.154715141812 85% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 36.96 35.408047138 104% => OK
Average word duration: 0.308 0.306236595465 101% => OK
STD word duration: 0.152570202421 0.198589292138 77% => 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: 2.82 5.14435465769 55% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.76 2.80480359147 27% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 43.64 45.0716498316 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.969777777778 1.00159221848 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.6416131989 0.637764685501 101% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.74977085243 2.58495923209 106% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.85609532539 1.68816559523 110% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.19155844156 2.15290372801 102% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.445995291667 0.343871460585 130% => 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.