Speaking topics in text
TPO 22 - Question 4
Irrational Commitment
When people have devoted time and resources to a certain project, they generally wanted to see it succeed. However, they may grow so attached to the idea of a successful outcome that even if it starts to look like the project will fail, and the disadvantages are outweighing the benefits; they will nevertheless increase their attachment to the project rather than give up. This is known as irrational commitment. This tendency to continue with a project when it would make better sense to quit can be especially strong when people feel they may be judged by others for their eventual success or failure with the project.
Speaking recording
Votes
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 615.0 592.248995984 104% => OK
No of words: 172.0 155.574297189 111% => OK
Chars per words: 3.57558139535 3.80514564318 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.62144681703 3.525876923 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.66359347998 1.79077849142 93% => OK
Unique words: 96.0 93.7148594378 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558139534884 0.604071249207 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 187.2 185.844578313 101% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.19417670683 92% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0773516650893 0.0650381309087 119% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 4.35341365462 138% => OK
Average paragraph length: 29.0 68.503853103 42% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 31.4006369362 21.3332995233 147% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 10.1433333333 25.9943957902 39% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 11.2827946696 7.84667146824 144% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 45.0 42.0642570281 107% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.82222222222 4.02192344571 95% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.97611894094 3.1217529195 95% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.30088888889 1.45093177766 90% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.8164498276 0.99851816184 82% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 40.0 39.0421686747 102% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 9.82 7.12997991968 138% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.2455 0.185688545393 132% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.213774998538 0.155154303396 138% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.27 47.1480722892 96% => OK
Average word duration: 0.263197674419 0.305395592593 86% => OK
STD word duration: 0.16651247036 0.189427763521 88% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 7.94979919679 75% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.02 6.2937751004 80% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.57 3.39508032129 105% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.86 59.7592369478 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.01433333333 0.995987282463 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.657246138679 0.656000678711 100% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.82615839632 2.60215298798 109% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.57739073283 1.56821927147 101% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.12060967528 1.99336655568 106% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.246684372093 0.317803793328 78% => OK
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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.