TPO 20 - Question 3 Energy costs reach sky-high levels Heating prices, and the university’s heating bills, reached record-high level this year. In an effort to reduce heating costs, the university decides to lower the temperature in classroom buildings | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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TPO 20 - Question 3

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 603.0 593.389002037 102% => OK
No of words: 157.0 154.784114053 101% => OK
Chars per words: 3.84076433121 3.82920900774 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.53976893118 3.52088357496 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.91377691776 1.81998168104 105% => OK
Unique words: 98.0 93.7942973523 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.624203821656 0.608046397892 103% => OK
Syllable count: 191.7 185.724439919 103% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0395838372424 0.0833886788687 47% => 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: 3.0 3.90020366599 77% => OK
Average paragraph length: 52.3333333333 71.3690273242 73% => OK
STD paragraph length: 31.8468557667 24.1299301424 132% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 19.8666666667 26.8388033085 74% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 13.0992552799 8.89323425527 147% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 40.0 40.266802444 99% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.925 4.20756893501 93% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.18109650907 3.23972648638 98% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.4365 1.51236819293 95% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.977595391765 1.0352206224 94% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 39.0 37.9022403259 103% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.07 7.22384928717 112% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.206923076923 0.193825474362 107% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.194411061284 0.16431695912 118% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.35 46.6644602851 101% => OK
Average word duration: 0.301592356688 0.304040633073 99% => OK
STD word duration: 0.172174217627 0.193491353168 89% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 8.88594704684 101% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.62 6.97134419552 95% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.18 3.21433808554 68% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.6 59.1375356415 101% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.993333333333 0.985625594026 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.654362416107 0.643888735843 102% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.63422818792 2.61565628039 101% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.64429530201 1.58604529434 104% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.0696937698 2.01333574461 103% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.374791732484 0.322651457988 116% => OK

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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.