Speaking topics in text
TPO 25 - Question 4
Cultural Lag
Technological change occurs very rapidly in modern society-sometimes more rapidly than many people are prepared for. As a result, when new technology emerges, people may struggle for a time to adapt to it. This period of transition, when people are adjusting to technological change, is known as cultural lag. At first, people are not accustomed to the new technology and may not understand it, they may therefore have a negative attitude toward it. Over time, however, their attitudes change, and they successfully incorporate the new technology into their daily lives.
Speaking recording
Votes
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 840.0 592.248995984 142% => OK
No of words: 202.0 155.574297189 130% => OK
Chars per words: 4.15841584158 3.80514564318 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.76996954942 3.525876923 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.18560852377 1.79077849142 122% => OK
Unique words: 121.0 93.7148594378 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59900990099 0.604071249207 99% => OK
Syllable count: 282.6 185.844578313 152% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.19417670683 117% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0807766638054 0.0650381309087 124% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.35341365462 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 202.0 68.503853103 295% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 60.58 25.9943957902 233% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 7.84667146824 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 25.0 42.0642570281 59% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 8.08 4.02192344571 201% => The average length of sentences is long.
STD acoustic sentence length: 6.29234455509 3.1217529195 202% => The length of acoustic sentences changes so often.
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.4028 1.45093177766 166% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.51884039978 0.99851816184 152% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 25.0 39.0421686747 64% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.5 7.12997991968 91% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.26 0.185688545393 140% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.150731549451 0.155154303396 97% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 51.35 47.1480722892 109% => OK
Average word duration: 0.254207920792 0.305395592593 83% => OK
STD word duration: 0.147797748937 0.189427763521 78% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 3.0 7.94979919679 38% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.2 6.2937751004 35% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.44 3.39508032129 13% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.58 59.7592369478 101% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.00966666667 0.995987282463 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.412677451304 0.656000678711 63% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.33443380654 2.60215298798 128% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.99735886431 1.56821927147 127% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.35637779942 1.99336655568 118% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.406291881188 0.317803793328 128% => OK
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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.