Speaking topics in text
TPO 14 - Question 3
University Should Allow Eating in Class
Currently, there is a university-wide policy that prohibits eating in the classroom. I disagree with this policy. I think students should be allowed to eat in class. This change would be good for two reasons. For one thing, if students were permitted to eat, they would be able to concentrate better, because students often get hungry during long classes, and hunger makes it difficult to concentrate. Also, if food were allowed in classrooms, it would be possible for us to have in-class parties on the last day of class—with snack foods and beverages—to celebrate the end of each semester.
Speaking recording
Votes
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 781.0 593.389002037 132% => OK
No of words: 197.0 154.784114053 127% => OK
Chars per words: 3.96446700508 3.82920900774 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.74642080493 3.52088357496 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.99587298691 1.81998168104 110% => OK
Unique words: 122.0 93.7942973523 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.619289340102 0.608046397892 102% => OK
Syllable count: 244.8 185.724439919 132% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.214057916153 0.0833886788687 257% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.90020366599 51% => OK
Average paragraph length: 98.5 71.3690273242 138% => OK
STD paragraph length: 29.5 24.1299301424 122% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 30.025 26.8388033085 112% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 8.865 8.89323425527 100% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 31.0 40.266802444 77% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.35483870968 4.20756893501 151% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.87619885736 3.23972648638 151% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.91 1.51236819293 126% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.31201642397 1.0352206224 127% => 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: 5.08 7.22384928717 70% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.181428571429 0.193825474362 94% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.174063089665 0.16431695912 106% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 51.84 46.6644602851 111% => OK
Average word duration: 0.263147208122 0.304040633073 87% => OK
STD word duration: 0.150303394205 0.193491353168 78% => 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: 0.83 3.21433808554 26% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.05 59.1375356415 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.00083333333 0.985625594026 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.466278101582 0.643888735843 72% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.28059950042 2.61565628039 125% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.03164029975 1.58604529434 128% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.35339506173 2.01333574461 117% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.461947081218 0.322651457988 143% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.