Speaking topics in audio
Speaking topics in text
History Seminars Should Be Shorter
Currently, all of the seminar classes in the history department are three hours long. I would like to propose that history seminars be shortened to two hours. I make this proposal for two reasons. First, most students just cannot concentrate for three hours straight. I myself have taken these three-hour seminars and found them tiring and sometimes boring. Also, when a seminar lasts that long, people stop concentrating and stop learning, so the third hour of a three-hour seminar is a waste of everyone‘s time. Two-hour seminars would be much more efficient.
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Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 595.0 593.389002037 100% => OK
No of words: 166.0 154.784114053 107% => OK
Chars per words: 3.5843373494 3.82920900774 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.58944267634 3.52088357496 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.57602381547 1.81998168104 87% => OK
Unique words: 96.0 93.7942973523 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578313253012 0.608046397892 95% => OK
Syllable count: 195.3 185.724439919 105% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0220981546917 0.0833886788687 27% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.90020366599 51% => OK
Average paragraph length: 83.0 71.3690273242 116% => OK
STD paragraph length: 24.0 24.1299301424 99% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 31.09 26.8388033085 116% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 11.26 8.89323425527 127% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 46.0 40.266802444 114% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.60869565217 4.20756893501 86% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.93135810625 3.23972648638 121% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.2852173913 1.51236819293 85% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.19648713929 1.0352206224 116% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 53.0 37.9022403259 140% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.9 7.22384928717 96% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.130188679245 0.193825474362 67% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.0994606315601 0.16431695912 61% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 51.43 46.6644602851 110% => OK
Average word duration: 0.309819277108 0.304040633073 102% => OK
STD word duration: 0.173679086739 0.193491353168 90% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 12.0 8.88594704684 135% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 8.72 6.97134419552 125% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.59 3.21433808554 49% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 62.18 59.1375356415 105% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.03633333333 0.985625594026 105% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.852364104214 0.643888735843 132% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.66966870376 2.61565628039 102% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.54390479254 1.58604529434 97% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.86661481626 2.01333574461 93% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.273039548193 0.322651457988 85% => OK
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Rates: 63.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 19.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.