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Using the examples from the lecture, discuss two types of narrators that an author of fiction might use.
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This speaking topic by users
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-07-18 | Elena Cristina | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-11 | chandr | 88.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-18 | Bobby1987 | 88.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-09-23 | may82 | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-05-05 | mghcivil | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Elena Cristina
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- The speakers discuss two possible solutions to the woman's problem. Briefly summarize the problem. Then state which solution you recommend and why. 68
- Do you think that eating healthy food is easier or more difficult today than it was 40 or 50 years ago? Use examples and details to support your answer. 88
- Some people prefer to travel alone, other people prefer to join tour group, which do you prefer and why? Include details and examples to support your explanation. 90
- Some people like to study in public places where there are other people around. Others prefer to study in places where there are few or no people around. Which kind of place do you prefer ? Explain why. 50
- The woman expresses her opinion about the university' s plan. State her opinion and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion. 76
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 597.0 578.828451883 103% => OK
No of words: 157.0 151.265690377 104% => OK
Chars per words: 3.8025477707 3.82278263415 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.53976893118 3.50058242952 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.69465059603 1.80425224433 94% => OK
Unique words: 105.0 92.4686192469 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.668789808917 0.61298525976 109% => OK
Syllable count: 189.9 182.283891213 104% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20543933054 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0916150423174 0.0839705835288 109% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 4.47071129707 67% => OK
Average paragraph length: 52.3333333333 65.8948926009 79% => OK
STD paragraph length: 32.8261413443 19.7758100068 166% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 19.9 25.5208953607 78% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 13.2136469859 7.49434385956 176% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 32.0 42.9832635983 74% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.90625 3.78147595546 130% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.34712099412 2.94285465224 148% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.7915625 1.39386743896 129% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.24937761849 0.967747756167 129% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 28.0 40.4456066946 69% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.19 7.59280334728 95% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.256785714286 0.19053887516 135% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.211829675033 0.157467062838 135% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.36 46.3453556485 104% => OK
Average word duration: 0.308025477707 0.308780311121 100% => OK
STD word duration: 0.156243479315 0.201157623399 78% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 8.09623430962 111% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.05 6.56692468619 92% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.23 3.53066945607 63% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.7 59.5455230126 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.995 0.992425383543 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.469011725293 0.681803438845 69% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.62981574539 2.53813033465 104% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.75879396985 1.55221717717 113% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.17121588089 1.99939622689 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.31996766242 0.309613076454 103% => 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.