Prescoring based upon the material contained in abstracts was used to allocate presentation times for the papers in Speech Communication submitted for presentation at the 80th Meeting of the Acoustical Society. After the papers were actually presented, their technical content, presentation quality, and discussion quality were judged. No casual relationships could be established between the prescoring and postjudging of the paper, although the papers allocated 15 min were judged statistically better in technical content than the papers allocated 5 or 10 min. It is hoped that this letter might entice others to conduct further experimentation and subjective assessment of different methods for improving professional meetings.