Speaking topics in text
TPO 27 - Question 3
Switch to Electronic Textbooks
The university will begin switching from traditional-bound textbooks early next year. University students will be able to download the content of their required textbooks to a reading device and read the material directly from the device’s screen. While the cost of the device is around $200, it is a one-time expense. Considering the rising cost of textbooks, students will save money in the long run since purchasing electronic books for their classes is much less expensive than buying regular textbooks. Furthermore, the university believes the device will be an effective study aid because it is simple to operate and offers features such as highlighting of text and note-taking.
Speaking recording
Votes
This speaking topic by users
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-18 | mgrajapt | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-10-11 | mgrajapt | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-04-13 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-10-05 | mgrajapt | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-09-06 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 601.0 593.389002037 101% => OK
No of words: 166.0 154.784114053 107% => OK
Chars per words: 3.62048192771 3.82920900774 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.58944267634 3.52088357496 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.79539296877 1.81998168104 99% => OK
Unique words: 104.0 93.7942973523 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.626506024096 0.608046397892 103% => OK
Syllable count: 198.0 185.724439919 107% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0336119432313 0.0833886788687 40% => 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: 6.0 3.90020366599 154% => OK
Average paragraph length: 27.6666666667 71.3690273242 39% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 32.1593255872 24.1299301424 133% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 9.865 26.8388033085 37% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 10.3175606775 8.89323425527 116% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 40.0 40.266802444 99% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.15 4.20756893501 99% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.15871809442 3.23972648638 97% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.417 1.51236819293 94% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.902039910425 1.0352206224 87% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 38.0 37.9022403259 100% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.06 7.22384928717 98% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.185789473684 0.193825474362 96% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.159070186081 0.16431695912 97% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.75 46.6644602851 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.28765060241 0.304040633073 95% => OK
STD word duration: 0.157628962978 0.193491353168 81% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 8.88594704684 79% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.31 6.97134419552 76% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.28 3.21433808554 71% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.19 59.1375356415 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.9865 0.985625594026 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.642000337895 0.643888735843 100% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.80452779186 2.61565628039 107% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.75705355634 1.58604529434 111% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.1780104712 2.01333574461 108% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.327387409639 0.322651457988 101% => 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.