Rating of Pringu Tharakan's Accent - Fri, March 25 2011

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Rating Score: 1 - I can barely understand any words

Paragraph Spoken:

The Senate voted Wednesday to approve the new nuclear arms control treaty with Russia -- a major foreign policy victory for the Obama administration near the end of the lame-duck session of Congress.

Recording of Rater Speaking Paragraph:

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Recording of Pringu Tharakan Speaking Paragraph:

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Rating Rating Detail

Rater The Rater understood 15% of what you said

Here's what the rater thought you said:

...new nuclear arms treaty with Prussia...

The rater understood 5 words out of a possible 33, for a percentage of 15%

The Rater thinks you can improve your accent by doing the following:

1)Pause longer between words. 2)Be attentive of heavy breathing before, after and during word pronunciation. 3)Be careful with words that have an "s."

The Rater guessed you live in:

India

Rater took 8 minutes to complete rating.

Rater About Your Rater:

Demographic Information

Gender Male
Age 25-34
Education Some college
Income Under $50,000

Rater's Location

based in his/her IP Address

Country XX
State/Province
City (Unknown City?)

based in his/her phone number

Country US
State/Province CA
City Sherman Oaks

according to his/her answers

Rater currently lives in Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
Rater grew up in Sherman Oaks, CA, USA

TranscriptionTranscription Accuracy

In addition to having the rater transcribe your recording, we also had your recording, and the rater's recording transcribed by an automated transcription service. This tells you how well automated transcription can understand your accent.

The actual words to be recorded

The Senate voted Wednesday to approve the new nuclear arms control treaty with Russia -- a major foreign policy victory for the Obama administration near the end of the lame-duck session of Congress.

American_speaker_small Automated transcription for your recording - 27% accurate

Listen Ed want that message doing from the noon I'm going to do so if you have and maybe your phone in policy ... 35 lassan instructions when you know that and I'll send in a session off I'm gonna.

The automated transcription understood 9 words out of a possible 33, for a percentage of 27%

Rater Automated transcription for the rater's recording - 73% accurate

At wednesday to approve the nuclear arms control treat you with russia major foreign policy victory for the a bomb administration here at the end of the Lane deck sessions congress.

The automated transcription understood 24 words out of a possible 33, for a percentage of 73%

Accent Instruction

Word in recording Pronunciation Example Definition
the definition
of definition
foreign definition
a definition
senate definition
voted definition
wednesday definition
to definition
approve definition
new definition
nuclear definition
arms definition
control definition
treaty definition
with definition
russia definition
major definition
policy definition
victory definition
for definition
obama
administration definition
near definition
end definition
lame definition
duck definition
session definition
congress definition





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