Speaking topics in text
TPO 26 - Question 3
Advisor Meetings Should No Longer Be Required
At present, students are required to meet with their academic advisors before the beginning of every semester. The advisors help students select courses and advise them on graduation requirements. However, I don’t see the point of required meetings, since the necessary information about the courses is already available on the university’s Web site, which all students have access to. In addition, eliminating meetings with advisors would ease the difficulty that students often have in finding a time to schedule a meeting when both they and their advisors are free.
Speaking recording
Votes
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 602.0 593.389002037 101% => OK
No of words: 148.0 154.784114053 96% => 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: 4.06756756757 3.82920900774 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.48791127476 3.52088357496 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.1042497609 1.81998168104 116% => OK
Unique words: 101.0 93.7942973523 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.682432432432 0.608046397892 112% => OK
Syllable count: 199.8 185.724439919 108% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.20224032587 116% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0928985911694 0.0833886788687 111% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 7.0 3.90020366599 179% => OK
Average paragraph length: 21.1428571429 71.3690273242 30% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 16.9235978227 24.1299301424 70% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 8.03142857143 26.8388033085 30% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.44937068076 8.89323425527 61% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 45.0 40.266802444 112% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.28888888889 4.20756893501 78% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.77786666524 3.23972648638 86% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.17222222222 1.51236819293 78% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.669898462916 1.0352206224 65% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 40.0 37.9022403259 106% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.89 7.22384928717 95% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.17225 0.193825474362 89% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.140951897823 0.16431695912 86% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 44.35 46.6644602851 95% => OK
Average word duration: 0.299662162162 0.304040633073 99% => OK
STD word duration: 0.172103109967 0.193491353168 89% => 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: 4.08 6.97134419552 59% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.01 3.21433808554 94% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.22 59.1375356415 95% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.937 0.985625594026 95% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.71149057275 0.643888735843 110% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.63251511917 2.61565628039 101% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.79651369619 1.58604529434 113% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.27733934611 2.01333574461 113% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.316550466216 0.322651457988 98% => OK
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.