Speaking topics in text
Notice concerning proposed changes in language requirements All international students at Community College are currently required to submit a TOEFL score of 80 in order to be admitted to credit classes. Students who score lower than 80 are referred to the English Language Institute for additional language instruction. The college is considering a proposal that would allow students with a score of 75 to take at least one credit class while they continue to study part time in the English Language Institute. The students would be assigned to an academic advisor who would help them select an appropriate course. This proposal will be discussed at a public meeting in the student union at 7 P.M. on December
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 777.0 593.389002037 131% => OK
No of words: 189.0 154.784114053 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.11111111111 3.82920900774 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.70779275107 3.52088357496 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.0479266411 1.81998168104 113% => OK
Unique words: 123.0 93.7942973523 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.650793650794 0.608046397892 107% => OK
Syllable count: 240.3 185.724439919 129% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0567976527971 0.0833886788687 68% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.90020366599 26% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 189.0 71.3690273242 265% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 24.1299301424 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 62.31 26.8388033085 232% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 8.89323425527 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 26.0 40.266802444 65% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 7.26923076923 4.20756893501 173% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.82143051616 3.23972648638 180% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.34076923077 1.51236819293 155% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.54560897403 1.0352206224 149% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 29.0 37.9022403259 77% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.66 7.22384928717 78% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.195172413793 0.193825474362 101% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.188636133769 0.16431695912 115% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 53.62 46.6644602851 115% => OK
Average word duration: 0.283703703704 0.304040633073 93% => OK
STD word duration: 0.169340573014 0.193491353168 88% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 10.0 8.88594704684 113% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.26 6.97134419552 104% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.83 3.21433808554 26% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 62.31 59.1375356415 105% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.0385 0.985625594026 105% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.465414861178 0.643888735843 72% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.03322099182 2.61565628039 116% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.97400096293 1.58604529434 124% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.29392017904 2.01333574461 114% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.450001079365 0.322651457988 139% => OK
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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 60 seconds.
Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.