Some college students choose to take courses in a variety of subject areas in order to get a broad education. Others choose to focus on a single subject area in order to have a deeper understanding of that area. Which approach to course selection do you t

Speaking topics in text

Some college students choose to take courses in a variety of subject areas in order to get a broad education. Others choose to focus on a single subject area in order to have a deeper understanding of that area. Which approach to course selection do you think is better for students and why?

Speaking recording
Votes
Average: 8.3 (1 vote)
This speaking topic by users
Post dates Users rates Contents
2019-05-14 ash.shouvik 66.00 Check this speaking
2017-02-22 daniel8564 60.00 Check this speaking
2016-10-12 nasimn 10.00 Check this speaking
2016-11-03 EugeneDubinchuk 70.00 Check this speaking
2016-10-12 SheLaya 80.00 Check this speaking
Speaking category
Speakings by user prayashpathak :

Comments

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 533.0 444.711560045 120% => OK
No of words: 150.0 116.580246914 129% => OK
Chars per words: 3.55333333333 3.81502700369 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.49963551158 3.28032121604 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.90625869761 1.8723322822 102% => OK
Unique words: 93.0 76.076318743 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.62 0.655143326166 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 181.8 141.574747475 128% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0288811679315 0.0738818816272 39% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.20202020202 94% => OK
Average paragraph length: 50.0 60.3232687746 83% => OK
STD paragraph length: 38.6091526282 17.3634065801 222% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 15.15 22.9064221017 66% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 11.1430007927 6.49597621602 172% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 28.0 31.1548821549 90% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.35714285714 4.0588447711 132% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.37230618118 3.18357895611 106% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.55857142857 1.46810986539 106% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.812011234465 1.01537252472 80% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 29.0 28.6644219978 101% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.44 5.28593714927 122% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.222068965517 0.187982170178 118% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.120641369651 0.154715141812 78% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 35.76 35.408047138 101% => OK
Average word duration: 0.2384 0.306236595465 78% => Maybe the speed rate is very high.
STD word duration: 0.147105766939 0.198589292138 74% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 6.3164983165 63% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.97 5.14435465769 58% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.43 2.80480359147 51% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.45 45.0716498316 101% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.01 1.00159221848 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.638063806381 0.637764685501 100% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.300330033 2.58495923209 128% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.04620462046 1.68816559523 121% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.60067114094 2.15290372801 121% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.340445126667 0.343871460585 99% => OK

---------------------
It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.

Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
---------------------
Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.