Speaking topics in text
Describe a piece of news or a story you concern recently. Explain why it gets your attention. Include reasons and details in your response.
Speaking recording
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This speaking topic by users
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-04-22 | Feng CHEN | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-04-07 | frozenstein | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-05-22 | Laura123 | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-12-19 | jags3184 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-12-30 | jags3184 | 78.00 | Check this speaking |
Speaking category
Speakings by user jags3184
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- What will you do to relax yourself? 70
- Some students prefer to choose a career before getting into college. Other students prefer to choose a career after taking some university courses. Which one do you prefer and why? Please use specific reasons and examples to support your response 66
- Do you prefer having meals at home? 90
- Describe a piece of news or a story you concern recently. Explain why it gets your attention. Include reasons and details in your response. 66
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? We should teach young children the skill of typing rather than handwriting. Please state your opinions and explanation. 66
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 415.0 444.711560045 93% => OK
No of words: 113.0 116.580246914 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: 3.67256637168 3.81502700369 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.2603904387 3.28032121604 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.99309639424 1.8723322822 106% => OK
Unique words: 78.0 76.076318743 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.690265486726 0.655143326166 105% => OK
Syllable count: 134.1 141.574747475 95% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.104434736124 0.0738818816272 141% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 56.5 60.3232687746 94% => OK
STD paragraph length: 33.5 17.3634065801 193% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 23.08 22.9064221017 101% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 13.73 6.49597621602 211% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 38.0 31.1548821549 122% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.97368421053 4.0588447711 73% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.17021514948 3.18357895611 68% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.17078947368 1.46810986539 80% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.670142881776 1.01537252472 66% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 37.0 28.6644219978 129% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.06 5.28593714927 152% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.217837837838 0.187982170178 116% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.156207331647 0.154715141812 101% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 34.98 35.408047138 99% => OK
Average word duration: 0.309557522124 0.306236595465 101% => OK
STD word duration: 0.171909573784 0.198589292138 87% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 6.3164983165 111% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.02 5.14435465769 98% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.6 2.80480359147 57% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 46.16 45.0716498316 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.02577777778 1.00159221848 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.801559792028 0.637764685501 126% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.44800693241 2.58495923209 95% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.68977469671 1.68816559523 100% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.22984562607 2.15290372801 104% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.368920300885 0.343871460585 107% => OK
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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 45 seconds.
Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.