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Music Coming to Cafeterias
Mary Dixon, Director of the Student Life Committee, announced yesterday that beginning next semester, university cafeterias will broadcast classical music during mealtimes. “Music will foster a more relaxed atmosphere,” said Dixon. “Students’ lives are hectic, and mealtimes provide important opportunities to take a break and catch up with friends before moving on to the next class or assignment.” Added Dixon, “We’re also hoping that, if we provide the music, students will unplug their personal music devices—their Walkmans™ and MP3 players or whatever—and will spend more time talking to each other. When students have their headphones on, they’re not connecting with each other.”
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This speaking topic by users
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-08-04 | sanjuc | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-04 | sanjuc | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-06-03 | Anu03 | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-10-22 | SANTANU MONDAL | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Anu03
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- Do you think the high school should teach music and art as other basic science? 53
- Some parents educate their own children at home. Others insist that their children should be sent to school. Which way of learning do you think is preferable and why? 60
- State whether you agree or disagree with the following statement. Then explain your reasons. Using specific details in your explanation. Students should not be allowed to bring cell phones (mobile phones) into classroom. 60
- The professor discussed the characteristics of two kinds of birds of prey. On the basis of these characteristics, explain whether either bird would be categorized as raptor. 50
- some universities have larger, lecture-based classes, whereas other have smaller, discussion based classes. Which do you think is better and why? Include details and reasons to support your position. 66
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 499.0 593.389002037 84% => Need more words or more difficult words.
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: 3.7803030303 3.82920900774 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.38956122427 3.52088357496 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.87614366712 1.81998168104 103% => OK
Unique words: 85.0 93.7942973523 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.643939393939 0.608046397892 106% => OK
Syllable count: 157.5 185.724439919 85% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0556750270559 0.0833886788687 67% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.90020366599 51% => OK
Average paragraph length: 66.0 71.3690273242 92% => OK
STD paragraph length: 13.0 24.1299301424 54% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 26.075 26.8388033085 97% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 4.935 8.89323425527 55% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 51.0 40.266802444 127% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.58823529412 4.20756893501 62% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.80605159838 3.23972648638 56% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 0.988235294118 1.51236819293 65% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.587105581854 1.0352206224 57% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 52.0 37.9022403259 137% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 13.43 7.22384928717 186% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.258269230769 0.193825474362 133% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.212509919713 0.16431695912 129% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 35.32 46.6644602851 76% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.267575757576 0.304040633073 88% => OK
STD word duration: 0.150030912028 0.193491353168 78% => 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: 3.47 6.97134419552 50% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.54 3.21433808554 48% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 52.15 59.1375356415 88% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.869166666667 0.985625594026 88% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.997123681687 0.643888735843 155% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.53116011505 2.61565628039 97% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.62991371045 1.58604529434 103% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.40656851642 2.01333574461 120% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.268363363636 0.322651457988 83% => OK
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.