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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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- TPO 15 - Question 2Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is important to remember and learn from the past. Use details and examples to explain your opinion. 60
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 532.0 593.389002037 90% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 125.0 154.784114053 81% => 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: 4.256 3.82920900774 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.34370152488 3.52088357496 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.97141167695 1.81998168104 108% => OK
Unique words: 94.0 93.7942973523 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.752 0.608046397892 124% => OK
Syllable count: 163.8 185.724439919 88% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0524365435849 0.0833886788687 63% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.90020366599 51% => OK
Average paragraph length: 62.5 71.3690273242 88% => OK
STD paragraph length: 49.5 24.1299301424 205% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 29.31 26.8388033085 109% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 20.52 8.89323425527 231% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 42.0 40.266802444 104% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.97619047619 4.20756893501 71% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.75584310181 3.23972648638 85% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.3319047619 1.51236819293 88% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.21262846761 1.0352206224 117% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 45.0 37.9022403259 119% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.39 7.22384928717 116% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.186444444444 0.193825474362 96% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.150039336406 0.16431695912 91% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.11 46.6644602851 101% => OK
Average word duration: 0.37688 0.304040633073 124% => OK
STD word duration: 0.207558824433 0.193491353168 107% => 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: 6.83 6.97134419552 98% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.38 3.21433808554 43% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.62 59.1375356415 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.977 0.985625594026 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.767656090072 0.643888735843 119% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.13237802798 2.61565628039 82% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.60354827704 1.58604529434 101% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.99533007854 2.01333574461 99% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.304357184 0.322651457988 94% => OK
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.