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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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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2019-09-29 | Seema Modak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-11 | chandr | 88.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-09-23 | may82 | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-18 | Elena Cristina | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-05-05 | mghcivil | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 702.0 578.828451883 121% => OK
No of words: 181.0 151.265690377 120% => OK
Chars per words: 3.87845303867 3.82278263415 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.66791821706 3.50058242952 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.96562442365 1.80425224433 109% => OK
Unique words: 111.0 92.4686192469 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.613259668508 0.61298525976 100% => OK
Syllable count: 220.5 182.283891213 121% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20543933054 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0840081737683 0.0839705835288 100% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.47071129707 45% => OK
Average paragraph length: 90.5 65.8948926009 137% => OK
STD paragraph length: 44.5 19.7758100068 225% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 28.14 25.5208953607 110% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 13.41 7.49434385956 179% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 25.0 42.9832635983 58% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 7.24 3.78147595546 191% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.5367830012 2.94285465224 154% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.2024 1.39386743896 158% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.25053358212 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: 27.0 40.4456066946 67% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.66 7.59280334728 61% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.172592592593 0.19053887516 91% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.0974714618289 0.157467062838 62% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.72 46.3453556485 105% => OK
Average word duration: 0.269171270718 0.308780311121 87% => OK
STD word duration: 0.154064198619 0.201157623399 77% => 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: 6.24 6.56692468619 95% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.8 3.53066945607 23% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.28 59.5455230126 95% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.938 0.992425383543 95% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.479744136461 0.681803438845 70% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.21606254442 2.53813033465 127% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.97228144989 1.55221717717 127% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.27832512315 1.99939622689 114% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.41399818232 0.309613076454 134% => OK
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.