Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which solution you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation.
1. Hi, Mat, you got your paper done for class today?
2. No, I just realized it's sitting on my desk.
3. I wrote it last night, but I forgot to bring it with me.
4. Ah-oh, so what are you gonna do?
5. Well, I could drive home and get it.
6. I live off-campus.
7. But if I hurry, I'd probably get home and bring the paper back before class was over.
8. You know how strict she is about late submissions.
9. Yeah, but you'd miss part of the class.
10. I know.
11. Maybe you could talk to the professor.
12. Explain what happened and ask him if you could send it later by email.
13. I know, but I'd have to do it after class cause she always starts class right on time.
14. There wouldn't be time to talk to her until after class.
15. Well, why don't you do that and hope she doesn't consider the paper late?
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 665.0 599.738853503 111% => OK
No of words: 167.0 158.596602972 105% => OK
Chars per words: 3.98203592814 3.77925476217 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.59483629437 3.54123138178 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.12053844109 1.79916674678 118% => OK
Unique words: 100.0 95.8789808917 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59880239521 0.607024082132 99% => OK
Syllable count: 205.2 189.005732484 109% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19129511677 101% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0820277253712 0.0831539838537 99% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.29936305732 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 167.0 70.8089261375 236% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 23.6022091992 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 58.74 25.9380837976 226% => 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: 40.0 40.7070063694 98% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.175 4.24305496596 98% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.54180391891 3.29867071766 107% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.4115 1.4825078846 95% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.05002273785 1.02222390891 103% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 41.0 38.0 108% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 9.29 7.14643312102 130% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.226585365854 0.189447223375 120% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.180805916104 0.156783300276 115% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.97 46.7170700637 98% => OK
Average word duration: 0.275269461078 0.297490414073 93% => OK
STD word duration: 0.183566837087 0.186336302485 99% => 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: 3.47 5.7916985138 60% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.33 3.38276008493 39% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.74 59.3491295117 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.979 0.989152158528 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.697991147429 0.642608181899 109% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.8430371127 2.6701766005 106% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.70241743275 1.61481078811 105% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.17533173809 2.05366198651 106% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.26374391018 0.327712499341 80% => OK
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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.
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.