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Fee Increase for Recreation Center Use
The university administration today announced a $25 increase in the student fee for using the campus recreation center. The higher fee, which all students are required to pay, will provide funds to upgrade the facility and provide newer, more modern exercise equipment at the center. "We expect the improvements to increase student use of the facility," explained David Smith, director of the student activities office. Mr. Smith also noted that the decision was approved because "we feel that $25 is a reasonable increase that will be affordable for individual students."
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 593.0 593.389002037 100% => OK
No of words: 160.0 154.784114053 103% => OK
Chars per words: 3.70625 3.82920900774 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55655882008 3.52088357496 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.68670119983 1.81998168104 93% => OK
Unique words: 95.0 93.7942973523 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.59375 0.608046397892 98% => OK
Syllable count: 193.5 185.724439919 104% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0963081578269 0.0833886788687 115% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.90020366599 51% => OK
Average paragraph length: 80.0 71.3690273242 112% => OK
STD paragraph length: 20.0 24.1299301424 83% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 28.655 26.8388033085 107% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 7.115 8.89323425527 80% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 27.0 40.266802444 67% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.92592592593 4.20756893501 141% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.19636281635 3.23972648638 99% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.08481481481 1.51236819293 138% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.00370192702 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: 23.0 37.9022403259 61% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.44 7.22384928717 89% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.28 0.193825474362 144% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.16968000574 0.16431695912 103% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.34 46.6644602851 101% => OK
Average word duration: 0.295875 0.304040633073 97% => OK
STD word duration: 0.172291132607 0.193491353168 89% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 13.0 8.88594704684 146% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 8.73 6.97134419552 125% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.65 3.21433808554 51% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.31 59.1375356415 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.955166666667 0.985625594026 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.401326121096 0.643888735843 62% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.79183388588 2.61565628039 107% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.65765136974 1.58604529434 105% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.00675961132 2.01333574461 100% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.3392134125 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.