Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which solution you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation.
1. Hey Beth!
2. How are things?
3. Not great!
4. Why?What's wrong?
5. I just found out I have to move out of my apartment, like, right away.
6. You are kidding.
7. Well, my apartment...it's in a house, a kind of old house.
8. And now something's wrong with the water pipes.
9. I think some of the pipes burst or wore out or something.
10. Anyway, we don't have any water in the house.
11. And apparently, it's gonna take about two weeks to fix the problem.
12. So you need to find a place to live for what, two weeks or so?
13. Yeah!
14. Bad timing, huh, with mid-term exams coming up and everything.
15. So have you figured out what you are going to do?
16. Well, some friends said I could stay at their place.
17. They don't have an extra bedroom, but they said it'd be OK for me to sleep on their living room couch.
18. You could probably handle that for a couple of weeks right?
19. I guess so.
20. I mean it's really nice of them to offer, and it's free.
21. The only problem is they already have four people living there so it could be a little crowded.
22. And not ideal for studying for mid-terms.
23. Yeah, too many distractions.
24. Um, any other options?
25. Well, I did find this place.
26. It's a small hotel over on 3rd Street right near campus.
27. Oh right!
28. A lot of kids' parents stay there when they come for a visit.
29. Right, so I could get a room there.
30. They have a weekly rate and it's pretty reasonable, but...I don't know.
31. At least at the hotel you'd have a place of your own, you know, so you could get more done.
32. That's definitely a plus.
33. But I have to think about it.
34. Even though it's pretty cheap, it will still end up costing me some money and my budget's pretty tight right now.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 799.0 599.738853503 133% => OK
No of words: 218.0 158.596602972 137% => OK
Chars per words: 3.66513761468 3.77925476217 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.84250218741 3.54123138178 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.76426693703 1.79916674678 98% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 95.8789808917 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.577981651376 0.607024082132 95% => OK
Syllable count: 255.6 189.005732484 135% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19129511677 101% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0791755686817 0.0831539838537 95% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 4.29936305732 93% => OK
Average paragraph length: 54.5 70.8089261375 77% => OK
STD paragraph length: 34.8173807171 23.6022091992 148% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 14.6625 25.9380837976 57% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 9.69662409037 8.54438981162 113% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 38.0 40.7070063694 93% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.73684210526 4.24305496596 135% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.16554924998 3.29867071766 126% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.45578947368 1.4825078846 98% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.877162385431 1.02222390891 86% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 41.0 38.0 108% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.59 7.14643312102 120% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.209512195122 0.189447223375 111% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.144929776427 0.156783300276 92% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.24 46.7170700637 97% => OK
Average word duration: 0.20752293578 0.297490414073 70% => Maybe the speed rate is very high.
STD word duration: 0.110832181291 0.186336302485 59% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 1.0 7.29723991507 14% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 0.66 5.7916985138 11% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.15 3.38276008493 64% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.65 59.3491295117 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.9775 0.989152158528 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.699062233589 0.642608181899 109% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.71696504689 2.6701766005 139% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.14833759591 1.61481078811 133% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.78514588859 2.05366198651 136% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.331167220183 0.327712499341 101% => 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.