For the past five years, there has been no increase in tuition and fees have remained the same, but now the university has decided to increase tuition by 5% each year for the next four years for all students. This raise in tuition will begin next fall sem

Speaking topics in text

For the past five years, there has been no increase in tuition and fees have remained the same, but now the university has decided to increase tuition by 5% each year for the next four years for all students. This raise in tuition will begin next fall semester. This increase is due to increased costs in construction for our new projects as well as the need to upgrade our existing equipment. The increased revenue from tuition will help keep this university in top form as well as help our students stay competitive in an increasingly competitive world.

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Votes
Average: 7.8 (1 vote)
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Comments

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 603.0 593.389002037 102% => OK
No of words: 146.0 154.784114053 94% => 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: 4.1301369863 3.82920900774 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.47606760199 3.52088357496 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.27030774159 1.81998168104 125% => OK
Unique words: 96.0 93.7942973523 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.657534246575 0.608046397892 108% => OK
Syllable count: 194.4 185.724439919 105% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.112240117919 0.0833886788687 135% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 7.0 3.90020366599 179% => OK
Average paragraph length: 20.8571428571 71.3690273242 29% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 14.4165437846 24.1299301424 60% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 7.93285714286 26.8388033085 30% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 4.99061322967 8.89323425527 56% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 44.0 40.266802444 109% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.31818181818 4.20756893501 79% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.57786863252 3.23972648638 49% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.19136363636 1.51236819293 79% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.444156969126 1.0352206224 43% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 37.0 37.9022403259 98% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.48 7.22384928717 117% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.229189189189 0.193825474362 118% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.12891183617 0.16431695912 78% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 41.88 46.6644602851 90% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.286849315068 0.304040633073 94% => OK
STD word duration: 0.17675830346 0.193491353168 91% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 8.88594704684 90% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.96 6.97134419552 85% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.27 3.21433808554 102% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 55.53 59.1375356415 94% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.9255 0.985625594026 94% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.66630650099 0.643888735843 103% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.62920943634 2.61565628039 101% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.72879524581 1.58604529434 109% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.29226361032 2.01333574461 114% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.317142917808 0.322651457988 98% => OK

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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.