The woman expresses her opinion of the university's plan. State her opinion and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion
Sculpture Courses to Be Discontinued
University administrators announced yesterday that the sculpture program, a division of the art department, will be eliminated. "The main reason is a lack of student interest," reported one administrator. "Although the number of art students has increased, fewer and fewer art majors are taking sculpture classes." Furthermore, the department's only sculpture professor is retiring this year. "Given the art department's limited budget," the administrator explained, "it just doesn't make sense to hire a new full-time professor to teach sculpture for only a handful of students."
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 570.0 593.389002037 96% => OK
No of words: 152.0 154.784114053 98% => 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: 3.75 3.82920900774 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.51124308557 3.52088357496 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.78535710714 1.81998168104 98% => OK
Unique words: 88.0 93.7942973523 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.578947368421 0.608046397892 95% => OK
Syllable count: 180.9 185.724439919 97% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0271638899623 0.0833886788687 33% => 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: 2.0 3.90020366599 51% => OK
Average paragraph length: 76.0 71.3690273242 106% => OK
STD paragraph length: 6.0 24.1299301424 25% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 28.845 26.8388033085 107% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 2.105 8.89323425527 24% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 33.0 40.266802444 82% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.60606060606 4.20756893501 109% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.34790204718 3.23972648638 103% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.72212121212 1.51236819293 114% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.0988637591 1.0352206224 106% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 27.0 37.9022403259 71% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.88 7.22384928717 81% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.217777777778 0.193825474362 112% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.177291000238 0.16431695912 108% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.0 46.6644602851 103% => OK
Average word duration: 0.315789473684 0.304040633073 104% => OK
STD word duration: 0.17170019126 0.193491353168 89% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 8.88594704684 101% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.62 6.97134419552 95% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.93 3.21433808554 60% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.69 59.1375356415 98% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.9615 0.985625594026 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.468018720749 0.643888735843 73% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.63477205755 2.61565628039 101% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.52539434911 1.58604529434 96% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.83333333333 2.01333574461 91% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.289016052632 0.322651457988 90% => OK
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Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.