Some people like to watch the news on the television. Other people prefer to read the news in a newspaper. Still others use computers to get the news. How do you prefer to be informed about the news and why?

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Some people like to watch the news on the television. Other people prefer to read the news in a newspaper. Still others use computers to get the news. How do you prefer to be informed about the news and why?

Speaking recording
Votes
Average: 6 (1 vote)
Speaking category

Comments

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 335.0 444.711560045 75% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 95.0 116.580246914 81% => 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: 3.52631578947 3.81502700369 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.12198564135 3.28032121604 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.77017456923 1.8723322822 95% => OK
Unique words: 65.0 76.076318743 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.684210526316 0.655143326166 104% => OK
Syllable count: 103.5 141.574747475 73% => The syllable count is low.
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.21290138435 0.0738818816272 288% => Good job. The more, the better.

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 14.0 3.20202020202 437% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 6.78571428571 60.3232687746 11% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 5.01680848219 17.3634065801 29% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 2.97571428571 22.9064221017 13% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 2.12699558158 6.49597621602 33% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 34.0 31.1548821549 109% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.79411764706 4.0588447711 69% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.09732899835 3.18357895611 66% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.03323529412 1.46810986539 70% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.580637178341 1.01537252472 57% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 21.0 28.6644219978 73% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.16 5.28593714927 117% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.293333333333 0.187982170178 156% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.245925527507 0.154715141812 159% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 27.98 35.408047138 79% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.294526315789 0.306236595465 96% => OK
STD word duration: 0.131227150761 0.198589292138 66% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 2.0 6.3164983165 32% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 1.32 5.14435465769 26% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 6.22 2.80480359147 222% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 41.66 45.0716498316 92% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.925777777778 1.00159221848 92% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.504080652904 0.637764685501 79% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.28036485838 2.58495923209 88% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.56024963994 1.68816559523 92% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.32308791994 2.15290372801 108% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.344300789474 0.343871460585 100% => OK

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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.