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Over the last ten years, the number of Central College students living on campus in dormitories has decreased by twenty percent. In an effort to counteract the trend, the college has announced a plan to renovate its on-campus housing. The renovations will take two years, and they will include improvements to the bathrooms, lighting, and heating in the dormitories. "A lot of people are moving off campus because the dorms aren‘t in great shape," explained the college president. "By renovating the dorms, we can make them more appealing than off-campus housing, and more students will choose to remain on campus."
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| 2016-08-25 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
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| 2020-01-11 | brk1 | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-11 | mike818 | 51.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-05-31 | boff | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 554.0 593.389002037 93% => OK
No of words: 131.0 154.784114053 85% => 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: 4.22900763359 3.82920900774 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.38312328216 3.52088357496 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.05855090771 1.81998168104 113% => OK
Unique words: 86.0 93.7942973523 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.656488549618 0.608046397892 108% => OK
Syllable count: 166.5 185.724439919 90% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.122121285289 0.0833886788687 146% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.90020366599 26% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 136.0 71.3690273242 191% => OK
STD paragraph length: 0.0 24.1299301424 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 47.08 26.8388033085 175% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 8.89323425527 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 22.0 40.266802444 55% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.95454545455 4.20756893501 142% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.06176487309 3.23972648638 125% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.04 1.51236819293 135% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.28800409373 1.0352206224 124% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 25.0 37.9022403259 66% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.82 7.22384928717 67% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.1928 0.193825474362 99% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.126728686571 0.16431695912 77% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 39.13 46.6644602851 84% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.298702290076 0.304040633073 98% => OK
STD word duration: 0.175522760954 0.193491353168 91% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 8.88594704684 56% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.11 6.97134419552 59% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.06 3.21433808554 2% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 47.08 59.1375356415 80% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.784666666667 0.985625594026 80% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.53101104503 0.643888735843 82% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.78249787596 2.61565628039 106% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.8266779949 1.58604529434 115% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.1978021978 2.01333574461 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.365832114504 0.322651457988 113% => 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.