Speaking topics in text
Sculpture Courses to Be Discontinued
University administrators announced yesterday that the sculpture program, a division of the art department, will be eliminated. "The main reason is a lack of student interest," reported one administrator. "Although the number of art students has increased, fewer and fewer art majors are taking sculpture classes." Furthermore, the department's only sculpture professor is retiring this year. "Given the art department's limited budget," the administrator explained, "it just doesn't make sense to hire a new full-time professor to teach sculpture for only a handful of students."
Speaking recording
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Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 624.0 593.389002037 105% => OK
No of words: 146.0 154.784114053 94% => 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: 4.27397260274 3.82920900774 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.47606760199 3.52088357496 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.0491245974 1.81998168104 113% => OK
Unique words: 99.0 93.7942973523 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.678082191781 0.608046397892 112% => OK
Syllable count: 196.2 185.724439919 106% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.106729739651 0.0833886788687 128% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 7.0 3.90020366599 179% => OK
Average paragraph length: 21.0 71.3690273242 29% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 25.7626529246 24.1299301424 107% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 8.44285714286 26.8388033085 31% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 9.47696713735 8.89323425527 107% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 32.0 40.266802444 79% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.5625 4.20756893501 108% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.79915697886 3.23972648638 117% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.718125 1.51236819293 114% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.2141211778 1.0352206224 117% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 33.0 37.9022403259 87% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.41 7.22384928717 75% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.163939393939 0.193825474362 85% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.128084711409 0.16431695912 78% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 49.22 46.6644602851 105% => OK
Average word duration: 0.337123287671 0.304040633073 111% => OK
STD word duration: 0.195819174709 0.193491353168 101% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 10.0 8.88594704684 113% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.75 6.97134419552 111% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.61 3.21433808554 81% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.1 59.1375356415 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.985 0.985625594026 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.558375634518 0.643888735843 87% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.4703891709 2.61565628039 94% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.67512690355 1.58604529434 106% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.01137748883 2.01333574461 100% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.359726013699 0.322651457988 111% => OK
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.