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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-13 | jeffhjz | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-18 | Bobby1987 | 88.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-18 | Elena Cristina | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-09-23 | may82 | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-29 | Seema Modak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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- TPO 32 - Question 2Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Children should receive money for doing household tasks such as cleaning. Use specific examples and details to support your opinion. 80
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.