Speaking topics in text
Using the example of the macaw from the lecture, explain the concept of flagship species.
Flagship Species
Environmental organizations work to protect plants and animals whose natural habitats are threatened by human activity. One way they do this is by selecting a particular species to represent the threatened habitat to the general public. This species, called a flagship species, is one that people are likely to find attractive and interesting. The flagship species is used to raise public awareness and motivate people to take action to protect the threatened habitat. People’s support of the flagship species results in protection for all the plant and animal species living in the threatened area.
Speaking recording
Votes
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 602.0 592.248995984 102% => OK
No of words: 150.0 155.574297189 96% => 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: 4.01333333333 3.80514564318 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.49963551158 3.525876923 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.01655371585 1.79077849142 113% => OK
Unique words: 102.0 93.7148594378 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.68 0.604071249207 113% => OK
Syllable count: 190.8 185.844578313 103% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0 0.0650381309087 0% => 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: 6.0 4.35341365462 138% => OK
Average paragraph length: 25.0 68.503853103 36% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 13.8323292808 21.3332995233 65% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 9.74666666667 25.9943957902 37% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.1762427386 7.84667146824 66% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 33.0 42.0642570281 78% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.54545454545 4.02192344571 113% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.58524678235 3.1217529195 115% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.67818181818 1.45093177766 116% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.12527829432 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: 28.0 39.0421686747 72% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.4 7.12997991968 76% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.192857142857 0.185688545393 104% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.118648855959 0.155154303396 76% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.27 47.1480722892 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.315133333333 0.305395592593 103% => OK
STD word duration: 0.16828442854 0.189427763521 89% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 10.0 7.94979919679 126% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.05 6.2937751004 112% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.93 3.39508032129 116% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.48 59.7592369478 98% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.974666666667 0.995987282463 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.478796169631 0.656000678711 73% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.56497948016 2.60215298798 99% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.74418604651 1.56821927147 111% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.15781679712 1.99336655568 108% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.264171266667 0.317803793328 83% => 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.