Speaking topics in text
Describe a piece of news or a story you concern recently. Explain why it gets your attention. Include reasons and details in your response.
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This speaking topic by users
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-04-22 | Feng CHEN | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-12-19 | jags3184 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-12-30 | jags3184 | 78.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-04-07 | frozenstein | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-05-22 | Laura123 | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
Speaking category
Speakings by user jags3184
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- What should students do in their vacations? 66
- Talk about an interesting tourist attraction you have been to. Describe it and say why it was interesting. 80
- Describe a piece of news or a story you concern recently. Explain why it gets your attention. Include reasons and details in your response. 78
- TPO13-Q2 : When looking for information for a research project, some students prefer to get their information mainly from the internet. Others prefer to mainly use printed materials such as books and academic journals. Which do you prefer, and why? 66
- 75. Some believe that the students should take a one-year break beforeattending college. Do you agree or disagree with the opinion and why? 83
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 415.0 444.711560045 93% => OK
No of words: 113.0 116.580246914 97% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.67256637168 3.81502700369 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.2603904387 3.28032121604 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.99309639424 1.8723322822 106% => OK
Unique words: 78.0 76.076318743 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.690265486726 0.655143326166 105% => OK
Syllable count: 134.1 141.574747475 95% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.104434736124 0.0738818816272 141% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 56.5 60.3232687746 94% => OK
STD paragraph length: 33.5 17.3634065801 193% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 23.08 22.9064221017 101% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 13.73 6.49597621602 211% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 38.0 31.1548821549 122% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.97368421053 4.0588447711 73% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.17021514948 3.18357895611 68% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.17078947368 1.46810986539 80% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.670142881776 1.01537252472 66% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 37.0 28.6644219978 129% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.06 5.28593714927 152% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.217837837838 0.187982170178 116% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.156207331647 0.154715141812 101% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 34.98 35.408047138 99% => OK
Average word duration: 0.309557522124 0.306236595465 101% => OK
STD word duration: 0.171909573784 0.198589292138 87% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 6.3164983165 111% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.02 5.14435465769 98% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.6 2.80480359147 57% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 46.16 45.0716498316 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.02577777778 1.00159221848 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.801559792028 0.637764685501 126% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.44800693241 2.58495923209 95% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.68977469671 1.68816559523 100% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.22984562607 2.15290372801 104% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.368920300885 0.343871460585 107% => OK
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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 45 seconds.
Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.