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The man expresses his opinion of the university’s plan to eliminate the bus service. State his opinion and explain the reasons he gives for holding that opinion. -
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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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-07-12 | Elena Cristina | 81.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-09-24 | kartal | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 586.0 593.389002037 99% => OK
No of words: 153.0 154.784114053 99% => 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: 3.83006535948 3.82920900774 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.51700396316 3.52088357496 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.79247099929 1.81998168104 98% => OK
Unique words: 102.0 93.7942973523 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.666666666667 0.608046397892 110% => OK
Syllable count: 179.1 185.724439919 96% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0172855958405 0.0833886788687 21% => 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: 11.0 3.90020366599 282% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 13.9090909091 71.3690273242 19% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 10.4833595019 24.1299301424 43% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 5.25636363636 26.8388033085 20% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 3.91656452595 8.89323425527 44% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 30.0 40.266802444 75% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.1 4.20756893501 121% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.01496268634 3.23972648638 93% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.755 1.51236819293 116% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.0065344836 1.0352206224 97% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 22.0 37.9022403259 58% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.47 7.22384928717 48% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.157727272727 0.193825474362 81% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.140030250569 0.16431695912 85% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.58 46.6644602851 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.310980392157 0.304040633073 102% => OK
STD word duration: 0.180238638854 0.193491353168 93% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 10.0 8.88594704684 113% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.43 6.97134419552 107% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.88 3.21433808554 152% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.82 59.1375356415 98% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.963666666667 0.985625594026 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.380491179523 0.643888735843 59% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.64614320304 2.61565628039 101% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.7640954687 1.58604529434 111% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.14375788146 2.01333574461 106% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.351604954248 0.322651457988 109% => OK
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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.