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: 777.0 593.389002037 131% => OK
No of words: 203.0 154.784114053 131% => OK
Chars per words: 3.8275862069 3.82920900774 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.77462671648 3.52088357496 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.89238234043 1.81998168104 104% => OK
Unique words: 119.0 93.7942973523 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.586206896552 0.608046397892 96% => OK
Syllable count: 243.9 185.724439919 131% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0855550165951 0.0833886788687 103% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 8.0 3.90020366599 205% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 25.375 71.3690273242 36% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 18.7679081147 24.1299301424 78% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 7.4025 26.8388033085 28% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.33737938974 8.89323425527 60% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 20.0 40.266802444 50% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 10.15 4.20756893501 241% => The average length of sentences is long.
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.80753820478 3.23972648638 179% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.8025 1.51236819293 185% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.50409067213 1.0352206224 145% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 14.0 37.9022403259 37% => Need to have little pauses between words/sentences.
Total acoustic silence duration: 2.59 7.22384928717 36% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.185 0.193825474362 95% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.128937969582 0.16431695912 78% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 50.97 46.6644602851 109% => OK
Average word duration: 0.251083743842 0.304040633073 83% => OK
STD word duration: 0.137700352489 0.193491353168 71% => 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: 3.33 6.97134419552 48% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.41 3.21433808554 106% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.22 59.1375356415 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.987 0.985625594026 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.236406619385 0.643888735843 37% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.42789598109 2.61565628039 131% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.00945626478 1.58604529434 127% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.33470669021 2.01333574461 116% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.457936068966 0.322651457988 142% => 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.