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: 688.0 593.389002037 116% => OK
No of words: 179.0 154.784114053 116% => OK
Chars per words: 3.84357541899 3.82920900774 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.65774358864 3.52088357496 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.88439654661 1.81998168104 104% => OK
Unique words: 109.0 93.7942973523 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.608938547486 0.608046397892 100% => OK
Syllable count: 219.6 185.724439919 118% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0710885948882 0.0833886788687 85% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 7.0 3.90020366599 179% => OK
Average paragraph length: 25.5714285714 71.3690273242 36% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 19.7256695911 24.1299301424 82% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 7.96285714286 26.8388033085 30% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.68066825618 8.89323425527 64% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 30.0 40.266802444 75% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.96666666667 4.20756893501 142% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.30877657294 3.23972648638 133% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.75633333333 1.51236819293 116% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.17336690293 1.0352206224 113% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 27.0 37.9022403259 71% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.6 7.22384928717 78% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.207407407407 0.193825474362 107% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.192538453929 0.16431695912 117% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 44.98 46.6644602851 96% => OK
Average word duration: 0.251284916201 0.304040633073 83% => OK
STD word duration: 0.146111698094 0.193491353168 76% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 8.88594704684 45% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.01 6.97134419552 43% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.03 3.21433808554 94% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 55.74 59.1375356415 94% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.929 0.985625594026 94% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.48439181916 0.643888735843 75% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.21133835666 2.61565628039 123% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.95550771439 1.58604529434 123% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.42329924411 2.01333574461 120% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.396665273743 0.322651457988 123% => 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.