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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."
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 698.0 593.389002037 118% => OK
No of words: 179.0 154.784114053 116% => OK
Chars per words: 3.89944134078 3.82920900774 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.65774358864 3.52088357496 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.89705732743 1.81998168104 104% => OK
Unique words: 109.0 93.7942973523 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.608938547486 0.608046397892 100% => OK
Syllable count: 230.4 185.724439919 124% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.152268763892 0.0833886788687 183% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.90020366599 51% => OK
Average paragraph length: 89.5 71.3690273242 125% => OK
STD paragraph length: 41.5 24.1299301424 172% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 30.125 26.8388033085 112% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 13.815 8.89323425527 155% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 29.0 40.266802444 72% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.1724137931 4.20756893501 147% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.80624682112 3.23972648638 117% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.99 1.51236819293 132% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.11432676443 1.0352206224 108% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 32.0 37.9022403259 84% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.88 7.22384928717 95% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.215 0.193825474362 111% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.158133646009 0.16431695912 96% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 50.09 46.6644602851 107% => OK
Average word duration: 0.279832402235 0.304040633073 92% => OK
STD word duration: 0.149772545837 0.193491353168 77% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 8.88594704684 56% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.51 6.97134419552 50% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.14 3.21433808554 35% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.25 59.1375356415 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.00416666667 0.985625594026 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.53112033195 0.643888735843 82% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.97095435685 2.61565628039 114% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.80912863071 1.58604529434 114% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.17608305051 2.01333574461 108% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.473070698324 0.322651457988 147% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.