Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. The state which solution you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation.
1. Hey, Kerry, what's the matter?
2. Well you know I'm in a choir, right?
3. And we have a concert tonight in an hour, just an hour from now?
4. I know, and I am going.
5. Really looking forward to hearing you sing.
6. What's the trouble?
7. Well are all supposed to wear white shirts and black pants at the concert, you know, so we all look the same.
8. Right?
9. Well I wore my white shirt to dinner.
10. And I split spaghetti source all over it.
11. Oh no.
12. Yeah…there is a huge red stain on it.
13. I can't wear it for the concert now.
14. It's the only white shirt I have and there is no time to go to the store to buy another one.
15. Wow, what are you going to do?
16. Well I just called the choir director and he is obviously unhappy about all this.
17. But I told him about another shirt I have, It's not exactly white, not white like the others, sort of off white, sort of cream colored?
18. And he says it's ok for me to wear it but….
19. But it's not exactly the same color as the others.
20. Right, I'll feel kind of funny.
21. Some people in the audience would probably be able to tell.
22. Um….Don't any of the other choir members have an extra white shirt you could borrow?
23. No, I've already asked around.
24. But my roommate has one.
25. Great!
26. Use hers.
27. Well the thing is she's out of town.
28. I've tried calling her but haven't been able to reach her.
29. She probably wouldn't mind, but you know I've never borrowed any of her stuff before, and I really don't like taking things without asking.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 761.0 599.738853503 127% => OK
No of words: 193.0 158.596602972 122% => OK
Chars per words: 3.94300518135 3.77925476217 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.72725689877 3.54123138178 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.05415420991 1.79916674678 114% => OK
Unique words: 112.0 95.8789808917 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.580310880829 0.607024082132 96% => OK
Syllable count: 239.4 189.005732484 127% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19129511677 101% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0794946412095 0.0831539838537 96% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.29936305732 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 193.0 70.8089261375 273% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 23.6022091992 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 60.14 25.9380837976 232% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 8.54438981162 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 33.0 40.7070063694 81% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.84848484848 4.24305496596 138% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.49323540124 3.29867071766 136% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.78393939394 1.4825078846 120% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.11378399351 1.02222390891 109% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 33.0 38.0 87% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.6 7.14643312102 120% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.260606060606 0.189447223375 138% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.233847132066 0.156783300276 149% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.87 46.7170700637 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.248031088083 0.297490414073 83% => OK
STD word duration: 0.147849030504 0.186336302485 79% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 7.29723991507 69% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.65 5.7916985138 63% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.38 3.38276008493 41% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.14 59.3491295117 101% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.00233333333 0.989152158528 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.54871965414 0.642608181899 85% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.20917858331 2.6701766005 120% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.86232125042 1.61481078811 115% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.33966993942 2.05366198651 114% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.255327430052 0.327712499341 78% => OK
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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.