Speaking topics in text
TPO 27 - Question 3
Switch to Electronic Textbooks
The university will begin switching from traditional-bound textbooks early next year. University students will be able to download the content of their required textbooks to a reading device and read the material directly from the device’s screen. While the cost of the device is around $200, it is a one-time expense. Considering the rising cost of textbooks, students will save money in the long run since purchasing electronic books for their classes is much less expensive than buying regular textbooks. Furthermore, the university believes the device will be an effective study aid because it is simple to operate and offers features such as highlighting of text and note-taking.
Speaking recording
Votes
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 735.0 593.389002037 124% => OK
No of words: 189.0 154.784114053 122% => OK
Chars per words: 3.88888888889 3.82920900774 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.70779275107 3.52088357496 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.1140330656 1.81998168104 116% => OK
Unique words: 113.0 93.7942973523 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.597883597884 0.608046397892 98% => OK
Syllable count: 234.0 185.724439919 126% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0807709950467 0.0833886788687 97% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 3.90020366599 103% => OK
Average paragraph length: 47.25 71.3690273242 66% => OK
STD paragraph length: 10.6154368728 24.1299301424 44% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 15.0075 26.8388033085 56% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 3.43640346147 8.89323425527 39% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 43.0 40.266802444 107% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.39534883721 4.20756893501 104% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.93447459648 3.23972648638 91% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.34139534884 1.51236819293 89% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.767483296979 1.0352206224 74% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 37.0 37.9022403259 98% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.69 7.22384928717 120% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.234864864865 0.193825474362 121% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.193511248666 0.16431695912 118% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.33 46.6644602851 97% => OK
Average word duration: 0.239841269841 0.304040633073 79% => Maybe the speed rate is very high.
STD word duration: 0.126065726497 0.193491353168 65% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 3.0 8.88594704684 34% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 1.89 6.97134419552 27% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.62 3.21433808554 113% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.03 59.1375356415 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.0005 0.985625594026 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.616358487423 0.643888735843 96% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.14842578711 2.61565628039 120% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.88239213726 1.58604529434 119% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.49283035517 2.01333574461 124% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.238244603175 0.322651457988 74% => OK
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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.
Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.