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Some universities have a strict policy that freshmen must live on campus indoors for their first year. Other universities have no such policy and allow students to decide where to live. Which policy do you think is better for first-year students and why?
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-11 | brk1 | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-05 | Mrudula | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-05-09 | ash.shouvik | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 538.0 444.711560045 121% => OK
No of words: 137.0 116.580246914 118% => OK
Chars per words: 3.92700729927 3.81502700369 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.42121322205 3.28032121604 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.81492207509 1.8723322822 97% => OK
Unique words: 85.0 76.076318743 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.620437956204 0.655143326166 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 173.7 141.574747475 123% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.140241775091 0.0738818816272 190% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.20202020202 94% => OK
Average paragraph length: 45.6666666667 60.3232687746 76% => OK
STD paragraph length: 30.2911795009 17.3634065801 174% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 15.2733333333 22.9064221017 67% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 8.77596844925 6.49597621602 135% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 33.0 31.1548821549 106% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.15151515152 4.0588447711 102% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.02636107242 3.18357895611 95% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.33393939394 1.46810986539 91% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.835369413453 1.01537252472 82% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 33.0 28.6644219978 115% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.36 5.28593714927 139% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.22303030303 0.187982170178 119% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.155767597838 0.154715141812 101% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 35.48 35.408047138 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.25897810219 0.306236595465 85% => OK
STD word duration: 0.159645065585 0.198589292138 80% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 6.3164983165 79% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.64 5.14435465769 71% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.23 2.80480359147 44% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.82 45.0716498316 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.01822222222 1.00159221848 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.720209515495 0.637764685501 113% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.98996071584 2.58495923209 116% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.85508511567 1.68816559523 110% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.39571589628 2.15290372801 111% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.460630160584 0.343871460585 134% => OK
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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.
Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.