Speaking topics in text
TPO 18 - Question 3
University Choir to Enter Off-Campus Singing Competitions
Currently, the university choir gives singing concerts only on campus. Next year, however, the choir will add competitive events at other locations to its schedule. The choir’s new director feels that entering singing competitions will make the quality of the choir's performance even better than it is now. "Competitions will motivate students in the choir to pursue a higher standard of excellence in singing," he said. In addition, it is hoped that getting the choir off campus and out in the public will strengthen the reputation of the university s music program. This in turn will help the program grow.
Speaking recording
Votes
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 761.0 593.389002037 128% => OK
No of words: 184.0 154.784114053 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.13586956522 3.82920900774 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.68302321012 3.52088357496 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.02108889731 1.81998168104 111% => OK
Unique words: 111.0 93.7942973523 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.603260869565 0.608046397892 99% => OK
Syllable count: 243.0 185.724439919 131% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.164552226681 0.0833886788687 197% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.90020366599 26% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 184.0 71.3690273242 258% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 24.1299301424 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 59.35 26.8388033085 221% => 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: 29.0 40.266802444 72% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.34482758621 4.20756893501 151% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.53549877171 3.23972648638 140% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.99655172414 1.51236819293 132% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.28247410638 1.0352206224 124% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 30.0 37.9022403259 79% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.56 7.22384928717 77% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.185333333333 0.193825474362 96% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.147393652811 0.16431695912 90% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 50.95 46.6644602851 109% => OK
Average word duration: 0.276902173913 0.304040633073 91% => OK
STD word duration: 0.134954385191 0.193491353168 70% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 1.0 8.88594704684 11% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 0.69 6.97134419552 10% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.68 3.21433808554 21% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.35 59.1375356415 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.989166666667 0.985625594026 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.50547598989 0.643888735843 79% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.10025273799 2.61565628039 119% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.87026116259 1.58604529434 118% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.17860647694 2.01333574461 108% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.484086076087 0.322651457988 150% => 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.