The woman expresses her opinion about the university' s plan. State her opinion and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion.
Housing Renovations Planned
Over the last ten years, the number of Central College students living on campus in dormitories has decreased by twenty percent. In an effort to counteract the trend, the college has announced a plan to renovate its on-campus housing. The renovations will take two years, and they will include improvements to the bathrooms, lighting, and heating in the dormitories. "A lot of people are moving off campus because the dorms aren‘t in great shape," explained the college president. "By renovating the dorms, we can make them more appealing than off-campus housing, and more students will choose to remain on campus."
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-29 | Seema Modak | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-28 | chandr | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-04-17 | Elena Cristina | 71.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-22 | Seema Modak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-21 | Seema Modak | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
- Describe a room or other area. 78
- Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which solution you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation. 80
- Choose an accomplishment that required you to work very hard. Explain what the accomplishment was and why it was important to you. 75
- Using the examples in the lecture, explain how the position of birds' eyes is critical to their survival. 75
- Explain how the experiment described by the professor illustrates the familiarity principle. 61
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 610.0 593.389002037 103% => OK
No of words: 150.0 154.784114053 97% => 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: 4.06666666667 3.82920900774 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.49963551158 3.52088357496 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.85711843696 1.81998168104 102% => OK
Unique words: 102.0 93.7942973523 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.68 0.608046397892 112% => OK
Syllable count: 182.7 185.724439919 98% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.045894849249 0.0833886788687 55% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 7.0 3.90020366599 179% => OK
Average paragraph length: 21.4285714286 71.3690273242 30% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 12.3849810295 24.1299301424 51% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 8.4 26.8388033085 31% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 4.69524683666 8.89323425527 53% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 27.0 40.266802444 67% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.55555555556 4.20756893501 132% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.09456128282 3.23972648638 126% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.06333333333 1.51236819293 136% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.3074940691 1.0352206224 126% => 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: 4.21 7.22384928717 58% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.1684 0.193825474362 87% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.136284408499 0.16431695912 83% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 49.96 46.6644602851 107% => OK
Average word duration: 0.333066666667 0.304040633073 110% => OK
STD word duration: 0.195116876655 0.193491353168 101% => 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: 8.74 6.97134419552 125% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.8 3.21433808554 87% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.8 59.1375356415 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.98 0.985625594026 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.425170068027 0.643888735843 66% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.55102040816 2.61565628039 98% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.73469387755 1.58604529434 109% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.04163330665 2.01333574461 101% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.299051186667 0.322651457988 93% => OK
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.