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TPO 48 - Question 4
Optimal Foraging
Food provides animals with the energy they need to survive. However, animals also lose energy in the process of obtaining, or foraging, for food. Therefore, in order to conserve energy, many animals behave in ways that minimize the energy they expend in the foraging process while at the same time maximizing their nutritional benefits. This energy-efficient approach to obtaining food is known as optimal foraging. The practice of optimal foraging allows animals to expend the least possible amount of energy while at the same time obtaining prey with high food value that will provide them with necessary nutrients.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-08-08 | toeflbeginner | 52.50 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-11-16 | fahim135 | 55.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-07 | bishoy | 86.50 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 671.0 592.248995984 113% => OK
No of words: 194.0 155.574297189 125% => OK
Chars per words: 3.4587628866 3.80514564318 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.73207559907 3.525876923 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.79370333819 1.79077849142 100% => OK
Unique words: 104.0 93.7148594378 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536082474227 0.604071249207 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 216.0 185.844578313 116% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.19417670683 92% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0191020758686 0.0650381309087 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 4.35341365462 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 194.0 68.503853103 283% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 61.73 25.9943957902 237% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 7.84667146824 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 25.0 42.0642570281 59% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 7.76 4.02192344571 193% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 7.52744312499 3.1217529195 241% => The length of acoustic sentences changes so often.
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.4308 1.45093177766 168% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.88822015666 0.99851816184 189% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 25.0 39.0421686747 64% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.37 7.12997991968 75% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.2148 0.185688545393 116% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.179312464709 0.155154303396 116% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 53.79 47.1480722892 114% => OK
Average word duration: 0.277268041237 0.305395592593 91% => OK
STD word duration: 0.150141721055 0.189427763521 79% => 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: 4.25 6.2937751004 68% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.34 3.39508032129 10% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 61.73 59.7592369478 103% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.02883333333 0.995987282463 103% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.404989470274 0.656000678711 62% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.14271828932 2.60215298798 121% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.68475619634 1.56821927147 107% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.93344487823 1.99336655568 97% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.305141149485 0.317803793328 96% => OK
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Rates: 65.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 19.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.