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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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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-23 | nasimn | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-28 | Taniazehra | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-09-05 | civilicar | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-06 | ali rouhani | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-31 | bishoy | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user bishoy
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 614.0 444.711560045 138% => OK
No of words: 143.0 116.580246914 123% => OK
Chars per words: 4.29370629371 3.81502700369 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.45807182446 3.28032121604 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48022153261 1.8723322822 132% => OK
Unique words: 92.0 76.076318743 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.643356643357 0.655143326166 98% => OK
Syllable count: 208.8 141.574747475 147% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.21358024691 124% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.167081942124 0.0738818816272 226% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 143.0 60.3232687746 237% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 45.17 22.9064221017 197% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 15.0 31.1548821549 48% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 9.53333333333 4.0588447711 235% => The average length of sentences is long.
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.46153466287 3.18357895611 109% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.96266666667 1.46810986539 202% => The duration of acoustic sentences is too long.
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.842088409188 1.01537252472 83% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 17.0 28.6644219978 59% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.28 5.28593714927 81% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.251764705882 0.187982170178 134% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.100892213547 0.154715141812 65% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 38.93 35.408047138 110% => OK
Average word duration: 0.272237762238 0.306236595465 89% => OK
STD word duration: 0.162357714277 0.198589292138 82% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 2.0 6.3164983165 32% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 1.46 5.14435465769 28% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.34 2.80480359147 12% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.17 45.0716498316 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.00377777778 1.00159221848 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.376355988488 0.637764685501 59% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.16581802081 2.58495923209 122% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.03675005535 1.68816559523 121% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.36321602877 2.15290372801 110% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.495062384615 0.343871460585 144% => OK
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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.
Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.