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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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| 2019-10-31 | shrijan | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
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- Some people like having a wide variety of friends and acquaintances they can spend time with. Others like to spend most of their free time with the same small group of close friends. Which do you prefer? Explain why. 60
- If you could have any job or career you wanted, which would you choose and why? Give specific details to explain your response 83
- The dining hall at the southern end of the campus will be redesigned for the fall semester, with the cafeteria to be replaced by a new food court. This remodeled dining area will include restaurants, cafes, and a convenience store where students can buy s 90
- Some people prefer to learn about current events from watching television news programs. Others prefer to read about current events in newspapers or on the Internet. Which do you think is better: watching the news or reading the news? Explain why.
- Some people have one career throughout their lives. Other people do different kinds of work at different points in their lives. Which do you think is better? Explain why. 66
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 604.0 593.389002037 102% => OK
No of words: 156.0 154.784114053 101% => OK
Chars per words: 3.87179487179 3.82920900774 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.53411884305 3.52088357496 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.81771182139 1.81998168104 100% => OK
Unique words: 102.0 93.7942973523 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.653846153846 0.608046397892 108% => OK
Syllable count: 196.2 185.724439919 106% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0213968889953 0.0833886788687 26% => 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: 3.0 3.90020366599 77% => OK
Average paragraph length: 52.0 71.3690273242 73% => OK
STD paragraph length: 50.0466449092 24.1299301424 207% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 20.02 26.8388033085 75% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 19.9298486363 8.89323425527 224% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 33.0 40.266802444 82% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.72727272727 4.20756893501 112% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.58826002775 3.23972648638 172% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.76060606061 1.51236819293 116% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.69300868886 1.0352206224 164% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 35.0 37.9022403259 92% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 10.37 7.22384928717 144% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.296285714286 0.193825474362 153% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.230255581155 0.16431695912 140% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 46.69 46.6644602851 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.299294871795 0.304040633073 98% => OK
STD word duration: 0.163468463906 0.193491353168 84% => 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: 4.87 6.97134419552 70% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.05 3.21433808554 33% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.06 59.1375356415 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.001 0.985625594026 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.582750582751 0.643888735843 91% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.5974025974 2.61565628039 99% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.6983016983 1.58604529434 107% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.18462197473 2.01333574461 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.333164948718 0.322651457988 103% => OK
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.