Speaking topics in text
TPO 30 - Question 3
Campus Construction Should Happen During the Summer
I've noticed that small construction projects on campus'like fixing sidewalks and parking lots'often take place during the regular school year, when classed are in session. I propose that whenever possible the university should schedule such construction projects to take place during the three-month summer break. One reason is that construction projects can be so disruptive; they create inconveniences and can make it hard to get where you need to go on campus. And, second, construction projects would be more likely to be completed quickly if they were scheduled for the summer when the weather is usually good.
Sincerely,
Eric Hughes
Speaking recording
Votes
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 654.0 593.389002037 110% => OK
No of words: 162.0 154.784114053 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.03703703704 3.82920900774 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.56762134501 3.52088357496 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.91449599753 1.81998168104 105% => OK
Unique words: 118.0 93.7942973523 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.728395061728 0.608046397892 120% => OK
Syllable count: 200.7 185.724439919 108% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.134187670576 0.0833886788687 161% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 3.90020366599 103% => OK
Average paragraph length: 40.5 71.3690273242 57% => OK
STD paragraph length: 40.4073013204 24.1299301424 167% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 14.5025 26.8388033085 54% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 14.1506667246 8.89323425527 159% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 31.0 40.266802444 77% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.22580645161 4.20756893501 124% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.24043270327 3.23972648638 131% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.8035483871 1.51236819293 119% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.2340061912 1.0352206224 119% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 28.0 37.9022403259 74% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.79 7.22384928717 66% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.171071428571 0.193825474362 88% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.136521565165 0.16431695912 83% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 49.21 46.6644602851 105% => OK
Average word duration: 0.303765432099 0.304040633073 100% => OK
STD word duration: 0.163049698672 0.193491353168 84% => 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: 4.31 6.97134419552 62% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.07 3.21433808554 64% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.01 59.1375356415 98% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.966833333333 0.985625594026 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.482675400793 0.643888735843 75% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.79262196173 2.61565628039 107% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.0341320462 1.58604529434 128% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.39788660841 2.01333574461 119% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.359090141975 0.322651457988 111% => 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.