Speaking topics in text
Advisor Meetings Should No Longer Be Required
At present, students are required to meet with their academic advisors before the beginning of every semester. The advisors help students select courses and advise them on graduation requirements. However, I don’t see the point of required meetings, since the necessary information about the courses is already available on the university’s Web site, which all students have access to. In addition, eliminating meetings with advisors would ease the difficulty that students often have in finding a time to schedule a meeting when both they and their advisors are free.
Speaking recording
Votes
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 731.0 593.389002037 123% => OK
No of words: 178.0 154.784114053 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.10674157303 3.82920900774 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.65262427087 3.52088357496 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.06763707902 1.81998168104 114% => OK
Unique words: 108.0 93.7942973523 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.606741573034 0.608046397892 100% => OK
Syllable count: 225.9 185.724439919 122% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.112831491694 0.0833886788687 135% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 5.0 3.90020366599 128% => OK
Average paragraph length: 35.6 71.3690273242 50% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 27.9614019677 24.1299301424 116% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 11.74 26.8388033085 44% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 9.7078627926 8.89323425527 109% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 24.0 40.266802444 60% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 7.41666666667 4.20756893501 176% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.0490648199 3.23972648638 156% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.32166666667 1.51236819293 154% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.56536115819 1.0352206224 151% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 22.0 37.9022403259 58% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.44 7.22384928717 61% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.201818181818 0.193825474362 104% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.160074879173 0.16431695912 97% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 49.23 46.6644602851 105% => OK
Average word duration: 0.276573033708 0.304040633073 91% => OK
STD word duration: 0.154312712391 0.193491353168 80% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 8.88594704684 56% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.5 6.97134419552 50% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.95 3.21433808554 92% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.7 59.1375356415 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.978333333333 0.985625594026 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.374787052811 0.643888735843 58% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.03236797274 2.61565628039 116% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.8398637138 1.58604529434 116% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.19378427788 2.01333574461 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.471131134831 0.322651457988 146% => 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.