Speaking topics in text
TPO 18 - Question 3
University Choir to Enter Off-Campus Singing Competitions
Currently, the university choir gives singing concerts only on campus. Next year, however, the choir will add competitive events at other locations to its schedule. The choir’s new director feels that entering singing competitions will make the quality of the choir's performance even better than it is now. "Competitions will motivate students in the choir to pursue a higher standard of excellence in singing," he said. In addition, it is hoped that getting the choir off campus and out in the public will strengthen the reputation of the university s music program. This in turn will help the program grow.
Speaking recording
Votes
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 744.0 593.389002037 125% => OK
No of words: 180.0 154.784114053 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.13333333333 3.82920900774 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.66284150148 3.52088357496 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.08806130178 1.81998168104 115% => OK
Unique words: 113.0 93.7942973523 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.627777777778 0.608046397892 103% => OK
Syllable count: 230.4 185.724439919 124% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.160220344906 0.0833886788687 192% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.90020366599 51% => OK
Average paragraph length: 90.0 71.3690273242 126% => OK
STD paragraph length: 80.0 24.1299301424 332% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 27.7 26.8388033085 103% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 23.16 8.89323425527 260% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 25.0 40.266802444 62% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 7.2 4.20756893501 171% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.21426150114 3.23972648638 130% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.1332 1.51236819293 141% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.13249713465 1.0352206224 109% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 33.0 37.9022403259 87% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.16 7.22384928717 71% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.156363636364 0.193825474362 81% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.102862608626 0.16431695912 63% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.29 46.6644602851 101% => OK
Average word duration: 0.262722222222 0.304040633073 86% => OK
STD word duration: 0.153997945713 0.193491353168 80% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 8.88594704684 45% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.92 6.97134419552 42% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.8 3.21433808554 25% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 55.4 59.1375356415 94% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.923333333333 0.985625594026 94% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.595667870036 0.643888735843 93% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.24909747292 2.61565628039 124% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.03971119134 1.58604529434 129% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.38951152464 2.01333574461 119% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.4232479 0.322651457988 131% => 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.