Music Coming to CafeteriasMary Dixon, Director of the Student Life Committee, announced yesterday that beginning next semester, university cafeterias will broadcast classical music during mealtimes. “Music will foster a more relaxed atmosphere,” said

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Music Coming to Cafeterias
Mary Dixon, Director of the Student Life Committee, announced yesterday that beginning next semester, university cafeterias will broadcast classical music during mealtimes. “Music will foster a more relaxed atmosphere,” said Dixon. “Students’ lives are hectic, and mealtimes provide important opportunities to take a break and catch up with friends before moving on to the next class or assignment.” Added Dixon, “We’re also hoping that, if we provide the music, students will unplug their personal music devices—their Walkmans™ and MP3 players or whatever—and will spend more time talking to each other. When students have their headphones on, they’re not connecting with each other.”

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Average: 5 (1 vote)
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Speakings by user sanjuc :

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 501.0 593.389002037 84% => Need more words or more difficult words.
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: 3.82442748092 3.82920900774 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.38312328216 3.52088357496 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.85126701416 1.81998168104 102% => OK
Unique words: 75.0 93.7942973523 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.572519083969 0.608046397892 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 150.3 185.724439919 81% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.20224032587 91% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0068129245761 0.0833886788687 8% => 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: 8.0 3.90020366599 205% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 16.375 71.3690273242 23% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 11.6182776262 24.1299301424 48% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 7.085 26.8388033085 26% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 4.84639556784 8.89323425527 54% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 58.0 40.266802444 144% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.25862068966 4.20756893501 54% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.38415098872 3.23972648638 43% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 0.851379310345 1.51236819293 56% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.489600288328 1.0352206224 47% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 59.0 37.9022403259 156% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 11.11 7.22384928717 154% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.188305084746 0.193825474362 97% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.15507409429 0.16431695912 94% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 38.02 46.6644602851 81% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.290229007634 0.304040633073 95% => OK
STD word duration: 0.163704563763 0.193491353168 85% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 8.88594704684 79% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.26 6.97134419552 75% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 5.48 3.21433808554 170% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.68 59.1375356415 96% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.944666666667 0.985625594026 96% => OK
Rate of silence: 1.04093154552 0.643888735843 162% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.3112208892 2.61565628039 88% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.32321806634 1.58604529434 83% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.9726459758 2.01333574461 98% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.286842274809 0.322651457988 89% => OK

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.