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TPO20-Q2
Some people prefer to learn about current events from watching television news programs. Others prefer to read about current events in newspapers or on the Internet. Which do you think is better: watching the news or reading the news? Explain why.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-02-11 | batool | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-06 | shrijan | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-21 | prayashpathak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-30 | Seema Modak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2020-01-10 | brk1 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Seema Modak
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- TPO 20 - Question 6Using points and examples from the talk, describe the two defense mechanisms mentioned by the professor 66
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 541.0 444.711560045 122% => OK
No of words: 159.0 116.580246914 136% => OK
Chars per words: 3.40251572327 3.81502700369 89% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55098862472 3.28032121604 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.63345332709 1.8723322822 87% => OK
Unique words: 94.0 76.076318743 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.591194968553 0.655143326166 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 172.8 141.574747475 122% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0217556888198 0.0738818816272 29% => 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: 159.0 60.3232687746 264% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 48.84 22.9064221017 213% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 36.0 31.1548821549 116% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.41666666667 4.0588447711 109% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.932591738 3.18357895611 124% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.34194444444 1.46810986539 91% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.10289220649 1.01537252472 109% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 36.0 28.6644219978 126% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.16 5.28593714927 60% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.0877777777778 0.187982170178 47% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.0855086451481 0.154715141812 55% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 43.1 35.408047138 122% => OK
Average word duration: 0.27106918239 0.306236595465 89% => OK
STD word duration: 0.155177282244 0.198589292138 78% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 6.3164983165 95% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.57 5.14435465769 89% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.61 2.80480359147 22% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 48.84 45.0716498316 108% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.08533333333 1.00159221848 108% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.737100737101 0.637764685501 116% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.25552825553 2.58495923209 126% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.92465192465 1.68816559523 114% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.18097447796 2.15290372801 101% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.360909704403 0.343871460585 105% => OK
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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.
Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 45 seconds.
Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.