Speaking topics in text
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Speaking recording
Votes
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 706.0 593.389002037 119% => OK
No of words: 179.0 154.784114053 116% => OK
Chars per words: 3.94413407821 3.82920900774 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.65774358864 3.52088357496 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.00480058048 1.81998168104 110% => OK
Unique words: 100.0 93.7942973523 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558659217877 0.608046397892 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 228.6 185.724439919 123% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.102132862367 0.0833886788687 122% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.90020366599 77% => OK
Average paragraph length: 59.6666666667 71.3690273242 84% => OK
STD paragraph length: 38.4216374225 24.1299301424 159% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 19.6066666667 26.8388033085 73% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 11.4426113958 8.89323425527 129% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 23.0 40.266802444 57% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 7.78260869565 4.20756893501 185% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.50064440288 3.23972648638 170% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.43652173913 1.51236819293 161% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.64371955901 1.0352206224 159% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 27.0 37.9022403259 71% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.15 7.22384928717 85% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.227777777778 0.193825474362 118% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.151151955264 0.16431695912 92% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 49.09 46.6644602851 105% => OK
Average word duration: 0.274245810056 0.304040633073 90% => OK
STD word duration: 0.151951425353 0.193491353168 79% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 8.88594704684 56% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.38 6.97134419552 48% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.49 3.21433808554 46% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.82 59.1375356415 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.980333333333 0.985625594026 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.459027541652 0.643888735843 71% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.04318259096 2.61565628039 116% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.70010200612 1.58604529434 107% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.03707476064 2.01333574461 101% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.473737625698 0.322651457988 147% => OK
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.