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TPO13-Q2 : 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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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2018-03-11 | Mortezaa | 48.67 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-06-26 | wls1993 | 71.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-04-28 | Tulips | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-02-22 | -vv- | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-10-30 | vhb | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Seema Modak
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 516.0 444.711560045 116% => OK
No of words: 151.0 116.580246914 130% => OK
Chars per words: 3.41721854305 3.81502700369 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.50545371207 3.28032121604 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.83547678954 1.8723322822 98% => OK
Unique words: 89.0 76.076318743 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.58940397351 0.655143326166 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 181.8 141.574747475 128% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0585486961878 0.0738818816272 79% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 151.0 60.3232687746 250% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 45.96 22.9064221017 201% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 33.0 31.1548821549 106% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.57575757576 4.0588447711 113% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.63510079082 3.18357895611 114% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.38272727273 1.46810986539 94% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.1345571095 1.01537252472 112% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 32.0 28.6644219978 112% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 2.64 5.28593714927 50% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.0825 0.187982170178 44% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.0637867541109 0.154715141812 41% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 41.09 35.408047138 116% => OK
Average word duration: 0.272119205298 0.306236595465 89% => OK
STD word duration: 0.144568823508 0.198589292138 73% => 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: 2.96 5.14435465769 58% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.39 2.80480359147 14% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.96 45.0716498316 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.02133333333 1.00159221848 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.696257615318 0.637764685501 109% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.28546562228 2.58495923209 127% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.9364664926 1.68816559523 115% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.16597712339 2.15290372801 101% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.349906503311 0.343871460585 102% => OK
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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.
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.