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Some people believe it is important for universities to provide funding for student entertainment, such as movies or concerts on campus. Others believe that university money should only be used for academic purposes. Which view do you agree with? Explain why.
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| 2018-07-21 | Mennatallah | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
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| 2016-09-10 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-01-16 | -vv- | 75.00 | 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: 407.0 444.711560045 92% => OK
No of words: 122.0 116.580246914 105% => OK
Chars per words: 3.33606557377 3.81502700369 87% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.32345618554 3.28032121604 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.6674838989 1.8723322822 89% => OK
Unique words: 77.0 76.076318743 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.631147540984 0.655143326166 96% => OK
Syllable count: 138.6 141.574747475 98% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.094246169304 0.0738818816272 128% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.20202020202 94% => OK
Average paragraph length: 41.3333333333 60.3232687746 69% => OK
STD paragraph length: 13.0213499897 17.3634065801 75% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 14.81 22.9064221017 65% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 5.19873702611 6.49597621602 80% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 23.0 31.1548821549 74% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.30434782609 4.0588447711 131% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.27619586675 3.18357895611 103% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.7752173913 1.46810986539 121% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.884577371774 1.01537252472 87% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 19.0 28.6644219978 66% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.11 5.28593714927 97% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.268947368421 0.187982170178 143% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.299102072647 0.154715141812 193% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 33.48 35.408047138 95% => OK
Average word duration: 0.274426229508 0.306236595465 90% => OK
STD word duration: 0.147981219346 0.198589292138 75% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 6.3164983165 63% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.77 5.14435465769 54% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.64 2.80480359147 130% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 44.43 45.0716498316 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.987333333333 1.00159221848 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.427638982669 0.637764685501 67% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.74589241503 2.58495923209 106% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.73306324555 1.68816559523 103% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.29988052569 2.15290372801 107% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.293157745902 0.343871460585 85% => OK
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.