Speaking topics in text
TPO 08 - Question 4
Revealing Coloration
Many animals use coloration to protect themselves from predators. One defensive strategy involving the use of coloration is what is known as revealing coloration. Animals employing this strategy have an area of bright color on some part of their body; this bright color is usually hidden from predators' view. When approached by a predator, the animal suddenly reveals the area of bright color; this unexpected display of color startles or confuses the predator and provides the would-be prey with an opportunity to escape.
Speaking recording
Votes
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 564.0 592.248995984 95% => OK
No of words: 141.0 155.574297189 91% => 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: 4.0 3.80514564318 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.44591672665 3.525876923 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.69270441216 1.79077849142 95% => OK
Unique words: 95.0 93.7148594378 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.673758865248 0.604071249207 112% => OK
Syllable count: 174.6 185.844578313 94% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.105465167598 0.0650381309087 162% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.35341365462 46% => OK
Average paragraph length: 71.0 68.503853103 104% => OK
STD paragraph length: 70.0 21.3332995233 328% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 27.165 25.9943957902 105% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 25.035 7.84667146824 319% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 33.0 42.0642570281 78% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.27272727273 4.02192344571 106% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.46648653908 3.1217529195 111% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.56 1.45093177766 108% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.13262098825 0.99851816184 113% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 36.0 39.0421686747 92% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.88 7.12997991968 125% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.246666666667 0.185688545393 133% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.236561009279 0.155154303396 152% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 42.16 47.1480722892 89% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.299007092199 0.305395592593 98% => OK
STD word duration: 0.151045082578 0.189427763521 80% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 7.94979919679 75% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.33 6.2937751004 69% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.5 3.39508032129 44% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 54.33 59.7592369478 91% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.9055 0.995987282463 91% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.662617338487 0.656000678711 101% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.59525124241 2.60215298798 100% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.74857353212 1.56821927147 112% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.25332068311 1.99336655568 113% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.268454858156 0.317803793328 84% => OK
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.