Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which solution you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation.
1. Hey, Matt, how is going?
2. Uh, so so.
3. I've got a problem with my housing for next semester, and I have to make a decision soon.
4. What's going on?
5. Well, I live in a dormitory and I've got a great roommate for the last two years, but he is moving off campus next semester.
6. Oh, so….
7. So now I have to make a big decision, you know, about my living arrangement.
8. Well, couldn't you just get a new roommate?
9. Doesn't the university automatically assign someone to take his place?
10. Yeah they do.
11. The thing is I am concerned about sharing a room with somebody new.
12. There could be problems like what if he wanted to go to sleep at 10 o'clock.
13. I am used to studying late at night and that would throw off my whole study schedule.
14. I guess that's possible.
15. But it is convenient to be on campus, easy to get to class and all.
16. What else could you do?
17. Well, my roommate found a house off campus with some other friends and there's another bedroom available.
18. I could have it but I have to let them known by the end of the week.
19. A house sounds like a good idea.
20. It'd be fun to live with a group of people.
21. True and it would definitely be economical with everyone splitting the rent.
22. But it's just that this house is really far from campus.
23. I'd have to wake up much earlier to get to class.
24. It'd just be a lot more inconvenient than living in the dorm.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 767.0 599.738853503 128% => OK
No of words: 188.0 158.596602972 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.07978723404 3.77925476217 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.70287850203 3.54123138178 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.9567167348 1.79916674678 109% => OK
Unique words: 124.0 95.8789808917 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.659574468085 0.607024082132 109% => OK
Syllable count: 238.5 189.005732484 126% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19129511677 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.090352666861 0.0831539838537 109% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.29936305732 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 188.0 70.8089261375 266% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 23.6022091992 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 60.48 25.9380837976 233% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 8.54438981162 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 31.0 40.7070063694 76% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.06451612903 4.24305496596 143% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.78396859319 3.29867071766 115% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.89096774194 1.4825078846 128% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.03750430963 1.02222390891 101% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 31.0 38.0 82% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.87 7.14643312102 124% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.286129032258 0.189447223375 151% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.24363745434 0.156783300276 155% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.87 46.7170700637 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.254627659574 0.297490414073 86% => OK
STD word duration: 0.134074327119 0.186336302485 72% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 3.0 7.29723991507 41% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.19 5.7916985138 38% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.48 3.38276008493 44% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.48 59.3491295117 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.008 0.989152158528 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.512566137566 0.642608181899 80% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.10846560847 2.6701766005 116% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.05026455026 1.61481078811 127% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.5903488615 2.05366198651 126% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.247244569149 0.327712499341 75% => 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.