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Sculpture Courses to Be Discontinued
University administrators announced yesterday that the sculpture program, a division of the art department, will be eliminated. "The main reason is a lack of student interest," reported one administrator. "Although the number of art students has increased, fewer and fewer art majors are taking sculpture classes." Furthermore, the department's only sculpture professor is retiring this year. "Given the art department's limited budget," the administrator explained, "it just doesn't make sense to hire a new full-time professor to teach sculpture for only a handful of students."
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 724.0 593.389002037 122% => OK
No of words: 184.0 154.784114053 119% => OK
Chars per words: 3.9347826087 3.82920900774 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.68302321012 3.52088357496 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.96327337476 1.81998168104 108% => OK
Unique words: 116.0 93.7942973523 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.630434782609 0.608046397892 104% => OK
Syllable count: 229.5 185.724439919 124% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.06911949421 0.0833886788687 83% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.90020366599 26% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 184.0 71.3690273242 258% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 24.1299301424 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 63.95 26.8388033085 238% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 8.89323425527 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 43.0 40.266802444 107% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.27906976744 4.20756893501 102% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.44610046821 3.23972648638 106% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.40697674419 1.51236819293 93% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.890410239613 1.0352206224 86% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 50.0 37.9022403259 132% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 10.4 7.22384928717 144% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.208 0.193825474362 107% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.146914941378 0.16431695912 89% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.01 46.6644602851 103% => OK
Average word duration: 0.260923913043 0.304040633073 86% => OK
STD word duration: 0.151699483655 0.193491353168 78% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 8.88594704684 68% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.05 6.97134419552 58% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.11 3.21433808554 97% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 63.95 59.1375356415 108% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.06583333333 0.985625594026 108% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.781860828772 0.643888735843 121% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.87724784988 2.61565628039 110% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.81391712275 1.58604529434 114% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.41616329931 2.01333574461 120% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.323901423913 0.322651457988 100% => OK
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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 60 seconds.
Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.