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University announces changes in campus tour guide
Traditionally, staff from the admission office has led the secondary-students who are considering attending the university. Beginning the next semester, however, current students will lead these guided walks around campus instead. “The staff of the admission office no longer have the time to lead campus tour, we need to focus our resources on our other responsibilities,” explained Christine Tanner, the director of admission. “Furthermore, we feel that current student will offer unique and valuable insight to our visitors during these campus tours
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- TPO 14 - Question 3University Should Allow Eating in ClassCurrently, there is a university-wide policy that prohibits eating in the classroom. I disagree with this policy. I think students should be allowed to eat in class. This change would be good for t 73
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 593.0 593.389002037 100% => OK
No of words: 141.0 154.784114053 91% => 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: 4.20567375887 3.82920900774 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.44591672665 3.52088357496 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.0159566671 1.81998168104 111% => OK
Unique words: 85.0 93.7942973523 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.602836879433 0.608046397892 99% => OK
Syllable count: 175.5 185.724439919 94% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0345480308648 0.0833886788687 41% => 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: 3.0 3.90020366599 77% => OK
Average paragraph length: 47.0 71.3690273242 66% => OK
STD paragraph length: 35.364765893 24.1299301424 147% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 19.46 26.8388033085 73% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 12.8633303101 8.89323425527 145% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 29.0 40.266802444 72% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.86206896552 4.20756893501 116% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.65887464532 3.23972648638 144% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.91896551724 1.51236819293 127% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.49932707855 1.0352206224 145% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 18.0 37.9022403259 47% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.54 7.22384928717 49% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.196666666667 0.193825474362 101% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.190787840283 0.16431695912 116% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.49 46.6644602851 104% => OK
Average word duration: 0.34390070922 0.304040633073 113% => OK
STD word duration: 0.193081664454 0.193491353168 100% => 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: 8.82 6.97134419552 127% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.6 3.21433808554 143% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.38 59.1375356415 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.973 0.985625594026 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.308324768756 0.643888735843 48% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.41521068859 2.61565628039 92% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.45597807468 1.58604529434 92% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.75293875026 2.01333574461 87% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.363080503546 0.322651457988 113% => OK
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.