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 of 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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Speaking reference notes: This topic is refereed from another speaking topic, developed by user: azita.f.t
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 548.0 593.389002037 92% => OK
No of words: 138.0 154.784114053 89% => 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: 3.97101449275 3.82920900774 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.42743929552 3.52088357496 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.07448973641 1.81998168104 114% => OK
Unique words: 85.0 93.7942973523 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.615942028986 0.608046397892 101% => OK
Syllable count: 168.3 185.724439919 91% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0110034810839 0.0833886788687 13% => 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: 4.0 3.90020366599 103% => OK
Average paragraph length: 34.5 71.3690273242 48% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 18.9274932307 24.1299301424 78% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 12.66 26.8388033085 47% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 7.24762374851 8.89323425527 81% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 37.0 40.266802444 92% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.72972972973 4.20756893501 89% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.85362404623 3.23972648638 88% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.32081081081 1.51236819293 87% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.832594052404 1.0352206224 80% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 35.0 37.9022403259 92% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 9.36 7.22384928717 130% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.267428571429 0.193825474362 138% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.21460053065 0.16431695912 131% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.28 46.6644602851 80% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.270144927536 0.304040633073 89% => OK
STD word duration: 0.155972802847 0.193491353168 81% => 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: 3.68 6.97134419552 53% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.23 3.21433808554 69% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 50.64 59.1375356415 86% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.844 0.985625594026 86% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.691153238547 0.643888735843 107% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.72511848341 2.61565628039 104% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.6785150079 1.58604529434 106% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.28004291845 2.01333574461 113% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.298562362319 0.322651457988 93% => OK
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.