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The woman expresses her opinion about the university' s plan. State her opinion and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion.
New Stadium
A university official announced plans to spend $2 million to build a new athletic stadium, commenting that a new stadium would help the university achieve its goal of attracting more top students. The official also said that, additionally, building a new stadium would allow the university to strengthen its relationship with the town since a new and larger stadium would have the space to seat not only students, parents, and alumni, but members of the local community as well.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-09 | Vishwajeet Kumar | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-08 | Seema Modak | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-07 | Seema Modak | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-21 | Seema Modak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-06 | Seema Modak | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 632.0 593.389002037 107% => OK
No of words: 169.0 154.784114053 109% => OK
Chars per words: 3.73964497041 3.82920900774 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.60555127546 3.52088357496 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.80489862473 1.81998168104 99% => OK
Unique words: 97.0 93.7942973523 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.573964497041 0.608046397892 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 194.4 185.724439919 105% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.018179364719 0.0833886788687 22% => 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: 56.3333333333 71.3690273242 79% => OK
STD paragraph length: 58.0191539254 24.1299301424 240% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 18.93 26.8388033085 71% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 19.2629333176 8.89323425527 217% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 32.0 40.266802444 79% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.28125 4.20756893501 126% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.80159814256 3.23972648638 117% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.7240625 1.51236819293 114% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.05387931999 1.0352206224 102% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 29.0 37.9022403259 77% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.5 7.22384928717 76% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.189655172414 0.193825474362 98% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.192183151844 0.16431695912 117% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.56 46.6644602851 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.281420118343 0.304040633073 93% => OK
STD word duration: 0.146894060195 0.193491353168 76% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 8.88594704684 68% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.98 6.97134419552 57% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.7 3.21433808554 53% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.79 59.1375356415 96% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.9465 0.985625594026 96% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.510653284029 0.643888735843 79% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.97587603451 2.61565628039 114% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.70804719141 1.58604529434 108% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.03952901598 2.01333574461 101% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.324583952663 0.322651457988 101% => OK
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.