Speaking topics in text
TPO 28 - Question 4
Refute-and-Persuade
Sometimes companies realize that consumers may have developed a negative impression of a product. One way in which they can resolve this problem is by using an advertising technique known as refute-and-persuade. Refute-and-persuade means that in advertising a product, the company first indicates its awareness of the product's disadvantage. But then the company refutes or challenges that disadvantage by demonstrating how the advantage of buying and using the product makes up for any limitation it may have. In this way, companies can persuade consumers to purchase a product despite its drawbacks.
Speaking recording
Votes
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 698.0 592.248995984 118% => OK
No of words: 166.0 155.574297189 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.20481927711 3.80514564318 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.58944267634 3.525876923 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.30378962887 1.79077849142 129% => OK
Unique words: 99.0 93.7148594378 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.596385542169 0.604071249207 99% => OK
Syllable count: 222.3 185.844578313 120% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.189445291002 0.0650381309087 291% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 4.35341365462 92% => OK
Average paragraph length: 41.5 68.503853103 61% => OK
STD paragraph length: 26.5377090194 21.3332995233 124% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 14.895 25.9943957902 57% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 9.51703078696 7.84667146824 121% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 29.0 42.0642570281 69% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.72413793103 4.02192344571 142% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.06750412097 3.1217529195 130% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.94965517241 1.45093177766 134% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.09209221146 0.99851816184 109% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 29.0 39.0421686747 74% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.08 7.12997991968 85% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.209655172414 0.185688545393 113% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.118014691038 0.155154303396 76% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.47 47.1480722892 103% => OK
Average word duration: 0.291987951807 0.305395592593 96% => OK
STD word duration: 0.181374337924 0.189427763521 96% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 7.94979919679 113% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.99 6.2937751004 111% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.97 3.39508032129 87% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.58 59.7592369478 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.993 0.995987282463 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.486740516952 0.656000678711 74% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.78616985566 2.60215298798 107% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.66163141994 1.56821927147 106% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.04250051578 1.99336655568 102% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.487505403614 0.317803793328 153% => 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.