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Bus Service Elimination Planned
The university has decided to discontinue its free bus service for students. The reason given for this decision is that few students ride the buses and the buses are expensive to operate. Currently, the buses run from the center of campus past university buildings and through some of the neighborhoods surrounding the campus. The money saved by eliminating the bus service will be used to expand the overcrowded student parking lots.
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| 2018-05-22 | davina_ | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
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| 2017-01-12 | mgrajapt | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-01-13 | shasadpoor | 83.33 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-04-12 | Tulips | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Elena Cristina
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- When a brand new device of modern technology (for example, a cell phone or a computer) comes out, should you buy it immediately or should you wait before you buy it? Give some reasons to support your opinion. 80
- Explain how the experiment described by the professor illustrates the familiarity principle. 60
- The woman expresses her opinion about the new policy. Briefly describe the policy. Then state the woman's opinion about the policy, and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion. 70
- Some people believe it is important for universities to provide funding for student entertainment, such as movies or concerts on campus. Others believe that university money should only be used for academic purposes. Which view do you agree with? Explain 90
- The woman expresses her opinion about the university' s plan. State her opinion and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion. 86
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 548.0 593.389002037 92% => OK
No of words: 132.0 154.784114053 85% => 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: 4.15151515152 3.82920900774 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.38956122427 3.52088357496 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.06883384105 1.81998168104 114% => OK
Unique words: 85.0 93.7942973523 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.643939393939 0.608046397892 106% => OK
Syllable count: 167.4 185.724439919 90% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.00620236299913 0.0833886788687 7% => 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: 5.0 3.90020366599 128% => OK
Average paragraph length: 27.0 71.3690273242 38% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 32.4961536185 24.1299301424 135% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 10.996 26.8388033085 41% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 12.1143296967 8.89323425527 136% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 34.0 40.266802444 84% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.88235294118 4.20756893501 92% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.8775470138 3.23972648638 89% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.47735294118 1.51236819293 98% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.894904887564 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: 33.0 37.9022403259 87% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.1 7.22384928717 98% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.215151515152 0.193825474362 111% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.166134688187 0.16431695912 101% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 42.93 46.6644602851 92% => OK
Average word duration: 0.325227272727 0.304040633073 107% => OK
STD word duration: 0.187884820895 0.193491353168 97% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 8.88594704684 79% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.58 6.97134419552 80% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.41 3.21433808554 75% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 54.98 59.1375356415 93% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.916333333333 0.985625594026 93% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.600218261186 0.643888735843 93% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.40087304474 2.61565628039 92% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.54601673336 1.58604529434 97% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.97996738877 2.01333574461 98% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.459771439394 0.322651457988 142% => OK
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.