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Hot Breakfasts Eliminated
Beginning next month, Dining Services will no longer serve hot breakfast foods at university dining halls. Instead, students will be offered a wide assortment of cold breakfast items in the morning. These cold breakfast foods, such as breads, fruit, and yogurt, are healthier than many of the hot breakfast items that we will stop serving, so health-conscious students should welcome this change. Students will benefit in another way as well, because limiting the breakfast selection to cold food items will save money and allow us to keep our meal plans affordable.
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Speaking reference notes: This topic is refereed from another speaking topic, developed by user: minaaminaa33
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Speakings by user Elena Cristina
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- Explain how the example from the lecture illustrates the concept of swarm intelligence. 76
- Explain how the example of the television advertisement for pots and pans from the lecture illustrates the technique of refute-and-persuade. 81
- Describe an enjoyable event in your childhood 65
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Use details and examples to explain your answer. All children should be required to learn a second language in school. 80
- Explain how the example from the professor’s lecture illustrate the choice-supportive bias. 70
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 564.0 593.389002037 95% => OK
No of words: 152.0 154.784114053 98% => 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: 3.71052631579 3.82920900774 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.51124308557 3.52088357496 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.84116517365 1.81998168104 101% => OK
Unique words: 104.0 93.7942973523 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.684210526316 0.608046397892 113% => OK
Syllable count: 191.7 185.724439919 103% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0671399884662 0.0833886788687 81% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 8.0 3.90020366599 205% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 19.0 71.3690273242 27% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 11.5758369028 24.1299301424 48% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 7.045 26.8388033085 26% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 4.355 8.89323425527 49% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 28.0 40.266802444 70% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.42857142857 4.20756893501 129% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.57031236373 3.23972648638 141% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.87 1.51236819293 124% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.51210827277 1.0352206224 146% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 21.0 37.9022403259 55% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 2.93 7.22384928717 41% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.139523809524 0.193825474362 72% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.125336734648 0.16431695912 76% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.47 46.6644602851 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.312302631579 0.304040633073 103% => OK
STD word duration: 0.195139863454 0.193491353168 101% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 12.0 8.88594704684 135% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 9.62 6.97134419552 138% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.14 3.21433808554 129% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.36 59.1375356415 95% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.939333333333 0.985625594026 95% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.372604684173 0.643888735843 58% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.69694819021 2.61565628039 103% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.84528034067 1.58604529434 116% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.19085738361 2.01333574461 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.303053177632 0.322651457988 94% => OK
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.