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The woman expresses her opinion about the university' s plan. State her opinion and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion.
New Stadium
A university official announced plans to spend $2 million to build a new athletic stadium, commenting that a new stadium would help the university achieve its goal of attracting more top students. The official also said that, additionally, building a new stadium would allow the university to strengthen its relationship with the town since a new and larger stadium would have the space to seat not only students, parents, and alumni, but members of the local community as well.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-22 | Mai Shadouf | Check this speaking | |
| 2018-06-27 | Elena Cristina | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2020-01-10 | brk1 | Check this speaking | |
| 2018-05-09 | Elena Cristina | 88.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-30 | dshah6611 | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Elena Cristina
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 623.0 593.389002037 105% => OK
No of words: 163.0 154.784114053 105% => OK
Chars per words: 3.82208588957 3.82920900774 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.57311423478 3.52088357496 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.00588167478 1.81998168104 110% => OK
Unique words: 108.0 93.7942973523 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.662576687117 0.608046397892 109% => OK
Syllable count: 198.9 185.724439919 107% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0366491482538 0.0833886788687 44% => 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: 2.0 3.90020366599 51% => OK
Average paragraph length: 81.5 71.3690273242 114% => OK
STD paragraph length: 58.5 24.1299301424 242% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 28.955 26.8388033085 108% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 19.705 8.89323425527 222% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 31.0 40.266802444 77% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.25806451613 4.20756893501 125% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.16566411803 3.23972648638 129% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.83741935484 1.51236819293 121% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.20243561357 1.0352206224 116% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 27.0 37.9022403259 71% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.14 7.22384928717 99% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.264444444444 0.193825474362 136% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.235644637244 0.16431695912 143% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.62 46.6644602851 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.292147239264 0.304040633073 96% => OK
STD word duration: 0.179852503752 0.193491353168 93% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 14.0 8.88594704684 158% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 10.23 6.97134419552 147% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.2 3.21433808554 37% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.91 59.1375356415 98% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.965166666667 0.985625594026 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.466240718356 0.643888735843 72% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.81471248489 2.61565628039 108% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.86496287342 1.58604529434 118% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.26795464091 2.01333574461 113% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.317642674847 0.322651457988 98% => OK
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.