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The woman expresses her opinion about the plan described in the article Sate her opinion and explain t he reasons she gives for holding the opinion.
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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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-06-05 | Elena Cristina | 88.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Elena Cristina
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- Explain how the examples from the professor's lecture illustrate the relationship between verbal and nonverbal communication. 63
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 637.0 593.389002037 107% => OK
No of words: 164.0 154.784114053 106% => OK
Chars per words: 3.88414634146 3.82920900774 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.57858190836 3.52088357496 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.90121716547 1.81998168104 104% => OK
Unique words: 102.0 93.7942973523 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.621951219512 0.608046397892 102% => OK
Syllable count: 198.0 185.724439919 107% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0346808541179 0.0833886788687 42% => 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: 2.0 3.90020366599 51% => OK
Average paragraph length: 82.0 71.3690273242 115% => OK
STD paragraph length: 52.0 24.1299301424 216% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 29.91 26.8388033085 111% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 19.89 8.89323425527 224% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 39.0 40.266802444 97% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.20512820513 4.20756893501 100% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.10648195098 3.23972648638 96% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.45743589744 1.51236819293 96% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.04617672172 1.0352206224 101% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 34.0 37.9022403259 90% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.59 7.22384928717 105% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.223235294118 0.193825474362 115% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.195172933698 0.16431695912 119% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 46.56 46.6644602851 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.283902439024 0.304040633073 93% => OK
STD word duration: 0.154752013246 0.193491353168 80% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 8.88594704684 90% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.6 6.97134419552 80% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.55 3.21433808554 110% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.82 59.1375356415 101% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 0.997 0.985625594026 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.568371782013 0.643888735843 88% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.74155800736 2.61565628039 105% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.70511534604 1.58604529434 108% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.19072164948 2.01333574461 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.283462506098 0.322651457988 88% => OK
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.