Speaking topics in text
Some believe it is important to learn as many foreign languages as possible. Others believe that speaking one or two languages fluently is enough. Which do you think is preferable and why?
Speaking recording
Votes
This speaking topic by users
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-11-08 | akshaymanjunath | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-22 | jeffhjz | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-30 | dshah6611 | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-04-10 | frozenstein | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-30 | dshah6611 | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
Speaking category
Speakings by user dshah6611
:
- ....Social Interaction....People deal with each other every day. This interaction is at the heart of social life. The study of social interaction is concerned with the influence people have over one another’s behavior. People take each other into accoun 52
- Many people prefer watching music videos on television or the Internet rather than listening to the songs on their own. Which way of experiencing music do you think is preferable and why? 50
- Explain how the lecturer’s claims give a concrete example of climate change’s effect on culture.Climate change hasn't always been seen as such a major factor in how we've progressed, how culture has developed. But more and more, we're finding that it 70
- New Scholarship Offers Opportunity to Study in Rome The university is pleased to offer an exciting new opportunity for students in the Romance Languages department The prestigious Buonocore Scholarship allows students to study tuition free for two semeste 50
- choose a place in your home that you enjoy spending time in. Explain why like it. 90
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 608.0 444.711560045 137% => OK
No of words: 142.0 116.580246914 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.28169014085 3.81502700369 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.45201032557 3.28032121604 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.98716372718 1.8723322822 106% => OK
Unique words: 90.0 76.076318743 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.633802816901 0.655143326166 97% => OK
Syllable count: 186.3 141.574747475 132% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.00733989624057 0.0738818816272 10% => 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: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 142.0 60.3232687746 235% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 58.11 22.9064221017 254% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 53.0 31.1548821549 170% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.67924528302 4.0588447711 66% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.03528853738 3.18357895611 64% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.03660377358 1.46810986539 71% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.598526314096 1.01537252472 59% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 57.0 28.6644219978 199% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 9.5 5.28593714927 180% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.166666666667 0.187982170178 89% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.130146116715 0.154715141812 84% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 43.75 35.408047138 124% => OK
Average word duration: 0.308098591549 0.306236595465 101% => OK
STD word duration: 0.145388905841 0.198589292138 73% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 0.0 6.3164983165 0% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 0.0 5.14435465769 0% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.75 2.80480359147 98% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.11 45.0716498316 129% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.29133333333 1.00159221848 129% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.980898296335 0.637764685501 154% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.44364136982 2.58495923209 95% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.54878678369 1.68816559523 92% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.05714285714 2.15290372801 96% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.456358809859 0.343871460585 133% => OK
---------------------
The speech is either too short or too long. It should be in 45 seconds.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
---------------------
Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.