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: 647.0 593.389002037 109% => OK
No of words: 172.0 154.784114053 111% => OK
Chars per words: 3.76162790698 3.82920900774 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.62144681703 3.52088357496 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.62328038563 1.81998168104 89% => OK
Unique words: 107.0 93.7942973523 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.622093023256 0.608046397892 102% => OK
Syllable count: 207.0 185.724439919 111% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.029447312661 0.0833886788687 35% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.90020366599 26% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 172.0 71.3690273242 241% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 24.1299301424 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 59.94 26.8388033085 223% => 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: 34.0 40.266802444 84% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.05882352941 4.20756893501 120% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.73332509473 3.23972648638 115% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.74735294118 1.51236819293 116% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.33389370073 1.0352206224 129% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 35.0 37.9022403259 92% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.7 7.22384928717 79% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.162857142857 0.193825474362 84% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.186495062035 0.16431695912 113% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 51.67 46.6644602851 111% => OK
Average word duration: 0.300406976744 0.304040633073 99% => OK
STD word duration: 0.150724442695 0.193491353168 78% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 8.88594704684 68% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.29 6.97134419552 62% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.49 3.21433808554 15% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.94 59.1375356415 101% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 0.999 0.985625594026 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.583917250584 0.643888735843 91% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.86953620287 2.61565628039 110% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.78511845179 1.58604529434 113% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.07083413973 2.01333574461 103% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.42080594186 0.322651457988 130% => 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.