Verbal and Nonverbal Communication
When we speak with other people face-to-face the nonverbal signals we give—our facial expressions, hand gestures, body movements, and tone of voice—often communicate as much as, or more than, the words we utter. When our nonverbal signals, which we often produce unconsciously, agree with our verbal message, the verbal message is enhanced and supported, made more convincing. But when they conflict with the verbal message, we may be communicating an entirely different and more accurate message than what we intend.
In the lecture, the professor talks about the relationship between verbal and nonverbal communication. The first example is that his uncle Pete gave him a surprise visit. His eyes got wide, he broke into a huge big smile. His expression enhanced how happy he was to see Uncle Pete. The second example is he hurt his thumb when teaching his daughter how to work with a hammer. Even though he kept saying he’s fine, he was shaking his hand and his face was twisted in pain. Those expressions told his daughter the truth: he was really in a lot of pain.
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 706.0 592.248995984 119% => OK
No of words: 172.0 155.574297189 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.10465116279 3.80514564318 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.62144681703 3.525876923 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.89570548792 1.79077849142 106% => OK
Unique words: 110.0 93.7148594378 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.639534883721 0.604071249207 106% => OK
Syllable count: 214.2 185.844578313 115% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0662817026365 0.0650381309087 102% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.35341365462 46% => OK
Average paragraph length: 86.0 68.503853103 126% => OK
STD paragraph length: 7.0 21.3332995233 33% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 28.51 25.9943957902 110% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 2.5 7.84667146824 32% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 46.0 42.0642570281 109% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.73913043478 4.02192344571 93% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.38140242394 3.1217529195 76% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.16782608696 1.45093177766 80% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.702535510609 0.99851816184 70% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 52.0 39.0421686747 133% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 9.29 7.12997991968 130% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.178653846154 0.185688545393 96% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.181796894767 0.155154303396 117% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 44.28 47.1480722892 94% => OK
Average word duration: 0.257441860465 0.305395592593 84% => OK
STD word duration: 0.132719200399 0.189427763521 70% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 1.0 7.94979919679 13% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 0.66 6.2937751004 10% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.18 3.39508032129 35% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.02 59.7592369478 95% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.950333333333 0.995987282463 95% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.911960715538 0.656000678711 139% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 3.0164854437 2.60215298798 116% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.92914766749 1.56821927147 123% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.48419150858 1.99336655568 125% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.291505610465 0.317803793328 92% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.