Speaking topics in text
Bus Service Elimination Planned The university has decided to discontinue its free bus service for students. The reason given for this decision is that few students ride the buses and the buses are expensive to operate.
Speaking recording
Votes
This speaking topic by users
Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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2016-12-02 | JohnNYC | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
2018-09-13 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
2018-08-07 | Adamma | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
2016-11-16 | Toefl2016 | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
2018-05-24 | 17kio | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 466.0 593.389002037 79% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 125.0 154.784114053 81% => 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: 3.728 3.82920900774 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.34370152488 3.52088357496 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.72221253044 1.81998168104 95% => OK
Unique words: 81.0 93.7942973523 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.648 0.608046397892 107% => OK
Syllable count: 148.5 185.724439919 80% => The syllable count is low.
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0558079624905 0.0833886788687 67% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.90020366599 77% => OK
Average paragraph length: 42.3333333333 71.3690273242 59% => OK
STD paragraph length: 58.4541605781 24.1299301424 242% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 17.4 26.8388033085 65% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 23.3080930151 8.89323425527 262% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 29.0 40.266802444 72% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.31034482759 4.20756893501 102% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.15248613742 3.23972648638 97% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.6624137931 1.51236819293 110% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.981612519847 1.0352206224 95% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 32.0 37.9022403259 84% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 9.17 7.22384928717 127% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.2865625 0.193825474362 148% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.238073116067 0.16431695912 145% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 38.9 46.6644602851 83% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.3112 0.304040633073 102% => OK
STD word duration: 0.166371151345 0.193491353168 86% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 8.88594704684 68% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.13 6.97134419552 59% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.53 3.21433808554 79% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 52.2 59.1375356415 88% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.87 0.985625594026 88% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.613026819923 0.643888735843 95% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.39463601533 2.61565628039 92% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.55172413793 1.58604529434 98% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.0822622108 2.01333574461 103% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.367600544 0.322651457988 114% => OK
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.