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TPO 08 - Question 3
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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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2018-04-20 | micro0o0 | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-09-15 | confidenceking | Check this speaking | |
| 2016-12-16 | paras001 | Check this speaking | |
| 2018-07-22 | alylmaz | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-29 | Seema Modak | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 631.0 593.389002037 106% => OK
No of words: 161.0 154.784114053 104% => OK
Chars per words: 3.91925465839 3.82920900774 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.56210296601 3.52088357496 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.01847108759 1.81998168104 111% => OK
Unique words: 102.0 93.7942973523 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.633540372671 0.608046397892 104% => OK
Syllable count: 200.7 185.724439919 108% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.167451149874 0.0833886788687 201% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 13.0 3.90020366599 333% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 12.4615384615 71.3690273242 17% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 8.67015557145 24.1299301424 36% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 4.41230769231 26.8388033085 16% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 2.76860185166 8.89323425527 31% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 26.0 40.266802444 65% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.19230769231 4.20756893501 147% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.96153846154 3.23972648638 122% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.98769230769 1.51236819293 131% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.15987501877 1.0352206224 112% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 19.0 37.9022403259 50% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.0 7.22384928717 42% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.157894736842 0.193825474362 81% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.105659779101 0.16431695912 64% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 46.75 46.6644602851 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.290372670807 0.304040633073 96% => OK
STD word duration: 0.188267314246 0.193491353168 97% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 11.0 8.88594704684 124% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 8.34 6.97134419552 120% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 5.66 3.21433808554 176% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.36 59.1375356415 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.956 0.985625594026 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.331241283124 0.643888735843 51% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.80683403068 2.61565628039 107% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.77824267782 1.58604529434 112% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.18181818182 2.01333574461 108% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.513387111801 0.322651457988 159% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.