TPO 14 - Question 5
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.
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 576.0 599.738853503 96% => OK
No of words: 148.0 158.596602972 93% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.89189189189 3.77925476217 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.48791127476 3.54123138178 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.13128287447 1.79916674678 118% => OK
Unique words: 84.0 95.8789808917 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.567567567568 0.607024082132 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 186.3 189.005732484 99% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19129511677 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0777489818586 0.0831539838537 94% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.29936305732 47% => OK
Average paragraph length: 74.5 70.8089261375 105% => OK
STD paragraph length: 73.5 23.6022091992 311% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 29.65 25.9380837976 114% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 29.01 8.54438981162 340% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 60.0 40.7070063694 147% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.46666666667 4.24305496596 58% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.83908189655 3.29867071766 56% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 0.961833333333 1.4825078846 65% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.616280487188 1.02222390891 60% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 57.0 38.0 150% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 10.38 7.14643312102 145% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.182105263158 0.189447223375 96% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.153631329523 0.156783300276 98% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 44.97 46.7170700637 96% => OK
Average word duration: 0.303851351351 0.297490414073 102% => OK
STD word duration: 0.223402810505 0.186336302485 120% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 7.29723991507 82% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.72 5.7916985138 99% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.81 3.38276008493 54% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.3 59.3491295117 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.988333333333 0.989152158528 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.961214165261 0.642608181899 150% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.4957841484 2.6701766005 93% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.41652613828 1.61481078811 88% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.86791194129 2.05366198651 91% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.279412371622 0.327712499341 85% => OK
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Rates: 61.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.