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TPO23 – Q1 : There can be several advantages spending time in another country. Talk about one advantage and explain how living in that country provides that advantage.
Spending time abroad can be an enlightening experience for sure, and one advantage I can describe is that you get accustomed with the culture, you experience the lives of other people, you become more knowledgeable and most importantly you become more compassionate and understanding toward other people.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2019-09-11 | SinaSina | 86.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-01-03 | toefltaker | Check this speaking | |
| 2017-10-29 | rojroo | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-04-09 | frozenstein | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-05-23 | Saharnaz | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 235.0 444.711560045 53% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 50.0 116.580246914 43% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 4.7 3.81502700369 123% => OK
Fourth root words length: 2.65914794847 3.28032121604 81% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83725219182 1.8723322822 152% => OK
Unique words: 35.0 76.076318743 46% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.7 0.655143326166 107% => OK
Syllable count: 76.5 141.574747475 54% => The syllable count is low.
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.21358024691 124% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.021920063574 0.0738818816272 30% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 50.0 60.3232687746 83% => OK
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 16.48 22.9064221017 72% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 9.0 31.1548821549 29% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.55555555556 4.0588447711 137% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.97523196 3.18357895611 125% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.75 1.46810986539 119% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.29350514323 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: 9.0 28.6644219978 31% => Need to have little pauses between words/sentences.
Total acoustic silence duration: 1.18 5.28593714927 22% => Still need a very little pause between two words.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.131111111111 0.187982170178 70% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.137311037385 0.154715141812 89% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 14.16 35.408047138 40% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.2832 0.306236595465 92% => OK
STD word duration: 0.189202959808 0.198589292138 95% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 1.0 6.3164983165 16% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 0.83 5.14435465769 16% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.54 2.80480359147 19% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 16.48 45.0716498316 37% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.366222222222 1.00159221848 37% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.546116504854 0.637764685501 86% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.03398058252 2.58495923209 117% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.12378640777 1.68816559523 126% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.47175141243 2.15290372801 115% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.38059224 0.343871460585 111% => OK
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The speech is either too short or too long. It should be in 45 seconds.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.