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: 535.0 593.389002037 90% => OK
No of words: 128.0 154.784114053 83% => 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: 4.1796875 3.82920900774 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.36358566101 3.52088357496 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.11923332891 1.81998168104 116% => OK
Unique words: 86.0 93.7942973523 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.671875 0.608046397892 110% => OK
Syllable count: 169.2 185.724439919 91% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.137763991848 0.0833886788687 165% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 8.0 3.90020366599 205% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 16.0 71.3690273242 22% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 14.2214626533 24.1299301424 59% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 7.425 26.8388033085 28% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 6.50709420556 8.89323425527 73% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 35.0 40.266802444 87% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.65714285714 4.20756893501 87% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.18875575504 3.23972648638 98% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.60342857143 1.51236819293 106% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.26190545912 1.0352206224 122% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 28.0 37.9022403259 74% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.11 7.22384928717 85% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.218214285714 0.193825474362 113% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.121744861183 0.16431695912 74% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.18 46.6644602851 103% => OK
Average word duration: 0.37640625 0.304040633073 124% => OK
STD word duration: 0.223077671363 0.193491353168 115% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 15.0 8.88594704684 169% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 11.83 6.97134419552 170% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.45 3.21433808554 107% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.4 59.1375356415 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.99 0.985625594026 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.47138047138 0.643888735843 73% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.15488215488 2.61565628039 82% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.44781144781 1.58604529434 91% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.78497301785 2.01333574461 89% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.506476257812 0.322651457988 157% => OK
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.