Speaking topics in text
TPO 06 - Question 3
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.
Speaking recording
Votes
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 410.0 593.389002037 69% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 112.0 154.784114053 72% => 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: 3.66071428571 3.82920900774 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.2531531234 3.52088357496 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.74004090381 1.81998168104 96% => OK
Unique words: 77.0 93.7942973523 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.6875 0.608046397892 113% => OK
Syllable count: 126.0 185.724439919 68% => The syllable count is low.
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.20224032587 91% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0698607435246 0.0833886788687 84% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.90020366599 26% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 112.0 71.3690273242 157% => OK
STD paragraph length: 0.0 24.1299301424 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 45.14 26.8388033085 168% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 8.89323425527 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 28.0 40.266802444 70% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.0 4.20756893501 95% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.79849594295 3.23972648638 117% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.60428571429 1.51236819293 106% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.14207339197 1.0352206224 110% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 24.0 37.9022403259 63% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.81 7.22384928717 53% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.15875 0.193825474362 82% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.13968155748 0.16431695912 85% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 38.05 46.6644602851 82% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.339732142857 0.304040633073 112% => OK
STD word duration: 0.201660339527 0.193491353168 104% => 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: 9.43 6.97134419552 135% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.87 3.21433808554 58% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.14 59.1375356415 76% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.752333333333 0.985625594026 76% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.531679220204 0.643888735843 83% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.48116969428 2.61565628039 95% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.70580416482 1.58604529434 108% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.02365308804 2.01333574461 101% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.430460651786 0.322651457988 133% => OK
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Rates: 61.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.