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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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| 2017-09-09 | Maryabb | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
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| 2018-04-12 | Elena Cristina | 57.67 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user chandr
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 653.0 444.711560045 147% => OK
No of words: 170.0 116.580246914 146% => OK
Chars per words: 3.84117647059 3.81502700369 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.61087313685 3.28032121604 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.83224671583 1.8723322822 98% => OK
Unique words: 99.0 76.076318743 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.582352941176 0.655143326166 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 201.6 141.574747475 142% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0833861680354 0.0738818816272 113% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 170.0 60.3232687746 282% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 53.47 22.9064221017 233% => 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: 41.0 31.1548821549 132% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.14634146341 4.0588447711 102% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.83160820376 3.18357895611 152% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.2612195122 1.46810986539 86% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.28973280485 1.01537252472 127% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 45.0 28.6644219978 157% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.12 5.28593714927 135% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.158222222222 0.187982170178 84% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.140543214214 0.154715141812 91% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 43.47 35.408047138 123% => OK
Average word duration: 0.255705882353 0.306236595465 83% => OK
STD word duration: 0.142601156957 0.198589292138 72% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 3.0 6.3164983165 47% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.27 5.14435465769 44% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.71 2.80480359147 25% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 53.47 45.0716498316 119% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.18822222222 1.00159221848 119% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.841593416869 0.637764685501 132% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 3.17935290817 2.58495923209 123% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.85150551711 1.68816559523 110% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.27743271222 2.15290372801 106% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.291238194118 0.343871460585 85% => OK
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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.