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TPO 20 - Question 3
Energy costs reach sky-high levels
Heating prices, and the university’s heating bills, reached record-high level this year. In an effort to reduce heating costs, the university decides to lower the temperature in classroom buildings on weekends and on workdays after five P.M., when the day’s classes have officially ended. Because class will not be in session at these times, the reduced heat will not have negative impact on students and their studies. The university considers it essential that the cost-saving measures not interfere with student activities.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 765.0 593.389002037 129% => OK
No of words: 182.0 154.784114053 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.2032967033 3.82920900774 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.67297393991 3.52088357496 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.05351216424 1.81998168104 113% => OK
Unique words: 104.0 93.7942973523 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.571428571429 0.608046397892 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 243.9 185.724439919 131% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0637858825774 0.0833886788687 76% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.90020366599 77% => OK
Average paragraph length: 60.6666666667 71.3690273242 85% => OK
STD paragraph length: 16.7398393727 24.1299301424 69% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 20.1033333333 26.8388033085 75% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 6.54400658788 8.89323425527 74% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 27.0 40.266802444 67% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.74074074074 4.20756893501 160% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.25652085883 3.23972648638 131% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.19444444444 1.51236819293 145% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.34371881244 1.0352206224 130% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 25.0 37.9022403259 66% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.4 7.22384928717 61% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.176 0.193825474362 91% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.138043471414 0.16431695912 84% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 52.65 46.6644602851 113% => OK
Average word duration: 0.289285714286 0.304040633073 95% => OK
STD word duration: 0.164487334474 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: 4.96 6.97134419552 71% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.15 3.21433808554 36% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.31 59.1375356415 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.00516666667 0.985625594026 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.414524954402 0.643888735843 64% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.01774166805 2.61565628039 115% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.72442381031 1.58604529434 109% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.97530864198 2.01333574461 98% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.505840840659 0.322651457988 157% => 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.