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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.
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.
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Speakings by user ash.shouvik
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 564.0 593.389002037 95% => OK
No of words: 137.0 154.784114053 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: 4.11678832117 3.82920900774 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.42121322205 3.52088357496 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.86032605819 1.81998168104 102% => OK
Unique words: 89.0 93.7942973523 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.649635036496 0.608046397892 107% => OK
Syllable count: 182.7 185.724439919 98% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.10184265564 0.0833886788687 122% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 11.0 3.90020366599 282% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 12.4545454545 71.3690273242 17% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 5.39972451088 24.1299301424 22% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 5.13272727273 26.8388033085 19% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 2.21581953199 8.89323425527 25% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 42.0 40.266802444 104% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.2619047619 4.20756893501 78% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.27888364284 3.23972648638 70% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.21928571429 1.51236819293 81% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.765793683695 1.0352206224 74% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 32.0 37.9022403259 84% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.25 7.22384928717 100% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.2265625 0.193825474362 117% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.169274358938 0.16431695912 103% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 41.87 46.6644602851 90% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.305620437956 0.304040633073 101% => OK
STD word duration: 0.162358804751 0.193491353168 84% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 3.0 8.88594704684 34% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.51 6.97134419552 36% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 5.5 3.21433808554 171% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.46 59.1375356415 95% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.941 0.985625594026 95% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.566772936592 0.643888735843 88% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.42649663479 2.61565628039 93% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.5763372299 1.58604529434 99% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.12562694053 2.01333574461 106% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.267550839416 0.322651457988 83% => OK
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Don't repeat words, phrases and sentences. or More unique words wanted.
Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.