Speaking topics in audio
Speaking topics in text
Using the example discuss by the professor, explain what cognitive dissonance is and how people often deal with it.
Individual sometimes experience a contradiction between their actions and their beliefs - between what they are doing and what they believe they should be doing . These contradictions can cause a kind of mental discomfort known as cognitive dissonance. people experiencing cognitive dissonance often do not want to change the way: they change their interpretation of the situation in away that minimize the contradiction between what they are doing and what they believe they should be doing.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 574.0 592.248995984 97% => OK
No of words: 151.0 155.574297189 97% => 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: 3.80132450331 3.80514564318 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.50545371207 3.525876923 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.01655357279 1.79077849142 113% => OK
Unique words: 93.0 93.7148594378 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.615894039735 0.604071249207 102% => OK
Syllable count: 186.3 185.844578313 100% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0188374011838 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: 151.0 68.503853103 220% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 51.92 25.9943957902 200% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 7.84667146824 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 26.0 42.0642570281 62% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.80769230769 4.02192344571 144% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 6.15829166352 3.1217529195 197% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.93192307692 1.45093177766 133% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.84334983372 0.99851816184 185% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 24.0 39.0421686747 61% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.43 7.12997991968 62% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.184583333333 0.185688545393 99% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.142740416102 0.155154303396 92% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 43.08 47.1480722892 91% => OK
Average word duration: 0.285298013245 0.305395592593 93% => OK
STD word duration: 0.162915522525 0.189427763521 86% => 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: 4.81 6.2937751004 76% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.6 3.39508032129 77% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 51.92 59.7592369478 87% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.865333333333 0.995987282463 87% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.462249614792 0.656000678711 70% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.90832049307 2.60215298798 112% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.79121725732 1.56821927147 114% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.15877437326 1.99336655568 108% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.349083271523 0.317803793328 110% => OK
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Don't repeat words, phrases and sentences. or More unique words wanted.
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.