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: 667.0 593.389002037 112% => OK
No of words: 191.0 154.784114053 123% => OK
Chars per words: 3.49214659686 3.82920900774 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.71756304063 3.52088357496 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.47888846737 1.81998168104 81% => OK
Unique words: 93.0 93.7942973523 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.486910994764 0.608046397892 80% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 216.0 185.724439919 116% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.20224032587 91% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0721189150979 0.0833886788687 86% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.90020366599 26% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 191.0 71.3690273242 268% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 24.1299301424 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 60.59 26.8388033085 226% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 8.89323425527 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 48.0 40.266802444 119% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.97916666667 4.20756893501 95% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.0033979599 3.23972648638 93% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.24520833333 1.51236819293 82% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.735300362616 1.0352206224 71% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 49.0 37.9022403259 129% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.8 7.22384928717 108% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.159183673469 0.193825474362 82% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.110948355971 0.16431695912 68% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 49.89 46.6644602851 107% => OK
Average word duration: 0.261204188482 0.304040633073 86% => OK
STD word duration: 0.144592278125 0.193491353168 75% => 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: 3.62 6.97134419552 52% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.48 3.21433808554 15% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.59 59.1375356415 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.00983333333 0.985625594026 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.808714309292 0.643888735843 126% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 3.15233536887 2.61565628039 121% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.53490675029 1.58604529434 97% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.86410102225 2.01333574461 93% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.321587544503 0.322651457988 100% => OK
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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.
Don't repeat words, phrases and sentences. or More unique words wanted.
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.