Speaking topics in text
TPO 26 - Question 4
Epiphytes
In rain forests, the canopy produced by the upper layer of branches may be so dense that few plants can grow on the shady ground below. Even so, many plants have adapted to life in the rain forest, developing fascinating strategies for survival. For example, various species known as epiphytes use a host plant as a platform for growth. Although epiphytes grow on a host tree, they take no nutrients from the tree itself. Attached to the tree, sometimes 30 or 40 meters high, these aerial plants have access to sunlight but not to nutrients from the soil below. As a result, they have developed unusual mechanisms that have allowed them to overcome this problem.
Speaking recording
Votes
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 670.0 592.248995984 113% => OK
No of words: 176.0 155.574297189 113% => OK
Chars per words: 3.80681818182 3.80514564318 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.64232057368 3.525876923 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.83623846333 1.79077849142 103% => OK
Unique words: 109.0 93.7148594378 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.619318181818 0.604071249207 103% => OK
Syllable count: 215.1 185.844578313 116% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0895747377952 0.0650381309087 138% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 4.35341365462 92% => OK
Average paragraph length: 44.0 68.503853103 64% => OK
STD paragraph length: 15.7321327226 21.3332995233 74% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 14.85 25.9943957902 57% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 5.41761940339 7.84667146824 69% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 29.0 42.0642570281 69% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.06896551724 4.02192344571 151% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.99077414046 3.1217529195 128% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.94344827586 1.45093177766 134% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.07318499823 0.99851816184 107% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 28.0 39.0421686747 72% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.64 7.12997991968 79% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.201428571429 0.185688545393 108% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.183472736116 0.155154303396 118% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 49.5 47.1480722892 105% => OK
Average word duration: 0.28125 0.305395592593 92% => OK
STD word duration: 0.157925561435 0.189427763521 83% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 7.94979919679 88% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.05 6.2937751004 80% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.16 3.39508032129 64% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.4 59.7592369478 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.99 0.995987282463 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.47138047138 0.656000678711 72% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.96296296296 2.60215298798 114% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.83501683502 1.56821927147 117% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.20202020202 1.99336655568 110% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.457535085227 0.317803793328 144% => 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.