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."
1. The college is making a mistake with this new plan.
2. What do you mean?
3. I think it'll really help accomplish the college's goals.
4. Don't be so sure.
5. All that construction for two years?
6. It's gonna create a lot of noise.
7. Well you mean in the beginning, for students still living in the dorms.
8. Yeah, students who are trying to sleep or do work are constantly going to be disturbed.
9. So people will try to get as far away as possible, probably by moving off campus.
10. So they'll lose even more people.
11. Huh, I hadn't thought of that.
12. But still, once all construction is over, more people will probably want to live in the dorms, right?
13. I mean, the living conditions will be so much better.
14. If they can afford to.
15. Do you know how the college is planning on paying for this plan by raising the cost of campus housing?
16. I didn't realize that.
17. Yeah.
18. So if it's more expensive, why would people want to move back into the dorms if they can rent an apartment for less money?
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 604.0 593.389002037 102% => OK
No of words: 167.0 154.784114053 108% => OK
Chars per words: 3.61676646707 3.82920900774 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.59483629437 3.52088357496 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.64056557703 1.81998168104 90% => OK
Unique words: 96.0 93.7942973523 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.574850299401 0.608046397892 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 191.7 185.724439919 103% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.20224032587 91% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.00664583817523 0.0833886788687 8% => 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: 83.5 71.3690273242 117% => OK
STD paragraph length: 46.5 24.1299301424 193% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 29.675 26.8388033085 111% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 15.565 8.89323425527 175% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 58.0 40.266802444 144% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.87931034483 4.20756893501 68% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.18203943046 3.23972648638 67% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 0.983275862069 1.51236819293 65% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.639537515901 1.0352206224 62% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 56.0 37.9022403259 148% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 11.53 7.22384928717 160% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.205892857143 0.193825474362 106% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.21690004928 0.16431695912 132% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 43.59 46.6644602851 93% => OK
Average word duration: 0.261017964072 0.304040633073 86% => OK
STD word duration: 0.135869939265 0.193491353168 70% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 3.0 8.88594704684 34% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.3 6.97134419552 33% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.91 3.21433808554 59% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.35 59.1375356415 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.989166666667 0.985625594026 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.943555181129 0.643888735843 147% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.81381634372 2.61565628039 108% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.61752316765 1.58604529434 102% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.20233998624 2.01333574461 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.237847676647 0.322651457988 74% => OK
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.