tpo36-6Using the examples from the professor's lecture, explain how snails survive in hot and dry climates.

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 656.0 578.828451883 113% => OK
No of words: 166.0 151.265690377 110% => OK
Chars per words: 3.95180722892 3.82278263415 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.58944267634 3.50058242952 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.80296686187 1.80425224433 100% => OK
Unique words: 105.0 92.4686192469 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.632530120482 0.61298525976 103% => OK
Syllable count: 206.1 182.283891213 113% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20543933054 100% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0866479617099 0.0839705835288 103% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.47071129707 22% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 166.0 65.8948926009 252% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 19.7758100068 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 57.74 25.5208953607 226% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 7.49434385956 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 34.0 42.9832635983 79% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.88235294118 3.78147595546 129% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.07116622894 2.94285465224 138% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.65852941176 1.39386743896 119% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.21612724845 0.967747756167 126% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 37.0 40.4456066946 91% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.92 7.59280334728 91% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.187027027027 0.19053887516 98% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.174307353039 0.157467062838 111% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.25 46.3453556485 104% => OK
Average word duration: 0.290662650602 0.308780311121 94% => OK
STD word duration: 0.152915976386 0.201157623399 76% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 8.09623430962 86% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.96 6.56692468619 76% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.52 3.53066945607 15% => Good job. The lower, the better.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.74 59.5455230126 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.962333333333 0.992425383543 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.640803602355 0.681803438845 94% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.87495670246 2.53813033465 113% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.81849670939 1.55221717717 117% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.17616580311 1.99939622689 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.396834819277 0.309613076454 128% => 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.