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: 651.0 593.389002037 110% => OK
No of words: 164.0 154.784114053 106% => OK
Chars per words: 3.96951219512 3.82920900774 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.57858190836 3.52088357496 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.08778030245 1.81998168104 115% => OK
Unique words: 108.0 93.7942973523 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.658536585366 0.608046397892 108% => OK
Syllable count: 209.7 185.724439919 113% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0848639756275 0.0833886788687 102% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.90020366599 26% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 164.0 71.3690273242 230% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 24.1299301424 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 60.68 26.8388033085 226% => 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: 41.0 40.266802444 102% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.0 4.20756893501 95% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.69574574144 3.23972648638 114% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.47926829268 1.51236819293 98% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.25550570949 1.0352206224 121% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 40.0 37.9022403259 106% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.33 7.22384928717 101% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.18325 0.193825474362 95% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.12824561396 0.16431695912 78% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 51.25 46.6644602851 110% => OK
Average word duration: 0.3125 0.304040633073 103% => OK
STD word duration: 0.164136227627 0.193491353168 85% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 8.88594704684 90% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.05 6.97134419552 87% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.05 3.21433808554 2% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.68 59.1375356415 103% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.01133333333 0.985625594026 103% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.659195781147 0.643888735843 102% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.7027027027 2.61565628039 103% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.7798286091 1.58604529434 112% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.10731707317 2.01333574461 105% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.440244676829 0.322651457988 136% => 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.