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Speaking reference notes: This topic is refereed from another speaking topic, developed by user: minaaminaa33
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Speakings by user Valeria1949
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- TPO 34 - Question 6 51
- TPO 20 - Question 3 Energy costs reach sky-high levels Heating prices, and the university’s heating bills, reached record-high level this year. In an effort to reduce heating costs, the university decides to lower the temperature in classroom buildings 83
- TPO 25 - Question 1 Students often want to get better grades in their classes. Explain what students should do in order to improve their performance in a class. 66
- TPO 18 - Question 6 66
- TPO 34 - Question 1 Your university plans to open a cafe inside the campus library. Do you think this is a good idea? Explain why or why not. 63
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 625.0 593.389002037 105% => OK
No of words: 152.0 154.784114053 98% => 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: 4.11184210526 3.82920900774 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.51124308557 3.52088357496 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.33268915887 1.81998168104 128% => OK
Unique words: 95.0 93.7942973523 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.625 0.608046397892 103% => OK
Syllable count: 193.5 185.724439919 104% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.220117458795 0.0833886788687 264% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.90020366599 26% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 152.0 71.3690273242 213% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 24.1299301424 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 62.38 26.8388033085 232% => 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: 42.0 40.266802444 104% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.61904761905 4.20756893501 86% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.47064136348 3.23972648638 107% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.44404761905 1.51236819293 95% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.12028707954 1.0352206224 108% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 43.0 37.9022403259 113% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.29 7.22384928717 115% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.192790697674 0.193825474362 99% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.145255598001 0.16431695912 88% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 50.71 46.6644602851 109% => OK
Average word duration: 0.333618421053 0.304040633073 110% => OK
STD word duration: 0.196252889158 0.193491353168 101% => 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: 11.53 6.97134419552 165% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.39 3.21433808554 43% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 62.38 59.1375356415 105% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.03966666667 0.985625594026 105% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.689323501122 0.643888735843 107% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.43667842257 2.61565628039 93% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.52292401411 1.58604529434 96% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.87339775192 2.01333574461 93% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.428738644737 0.322651457988 133% => OK
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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 60 seconds.
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.