Energy costs reach sky-high levels Heating prices, and the university’s heating bills, reached record-high level this year. In an effort to reduce heating costs, the university decides to lower the temperature in classroom buildings

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 629.0 593.389002037 106% => OK
No of words: 150.0 154.784114053 97% => 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: 4.19333333333 3.82920900774 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.49963551158 3.52088357496 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.37682327675 1.81998168104 131% => OK
Unique words: 95.0 93.7942973523 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.633333333333 0.608046397892 104% => OK
Syllable count: 213.3 185.724439919 115% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.20224032587 116% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.129658114494 0.0833886788687 155% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.90020366599 51% => OK
Average paragraph length: 75.0 71.3690273242 105% => OK
STD paragraph length: 35.0 24.1299301424 145% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 29.31 26.8388033085 109% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 16.17 8.89323425527 182% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 31.0 40.266802444 77% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.83870967742 4.20756893501 115% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.61482026486 3.23972648638 142% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.79 1.51236819293 118% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.32437934338 1.0352206224 128% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 34.0 37.9022403259 90% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.29 7.22384928717 87% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.185 0.193825474362 95% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.162792722774 0.16431695912 99% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.68 46.6644602851 104% => OK
Average word duration: 0.324533333333 0.304040633073 107% => OK
STD word duration: 0.213437224703 0.193491353168 110% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 11.0 8.88594704684 124% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 9.06 6.97134419552 130% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.76 3.21433808554 55% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.62 59.1375356415 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.977 0.985625594026 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.58000682361 0.643888735843 90% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.55885363357 2.61565628039 98% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.62060730126 1.58604529434 102% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.95152013147 2.01333574461 97% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.339616946667 0.322651457988 105% => OK

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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.