Man
Hey, Lisa, how’s it going?
Woman
Hi, Mark. Uh, I’m OK, I guess, but my schoolwork is really stressing me out.
Man
[sympathetically] Yeah? What’s wrong?
Woman
Well, I’ve got a paper to write and two exams to study for. And a bunch of math prob- lems to finish. It’s just so much that I can’t concentrate on any of it. I start concentrat- ing on studying for one of my exams, and then I’m like, how long’s it gonna take to finish that problem set?
Man
Wow. Sounds like you’ve got a lot more work than you can handle right now. [not wanting to sound too pushy] Look, have you talked to some of your professors . . . I mean, you know, try to explain the problem. Look, you could probably get an exten- sion on your paper, or on the math assignment . . .
Woman
You think? It would give me a little more time to prepare for my exams right now.
Man
Well, I mean another thing that you might do . . . I mean have you tried making your- self a schedule? I mean that’s what I do when I’m feeling overwhelmed.
Woman
What does that do for you?
Man
Well, I mean it helps you to focus your energies. You know, you make yourself a chart that shows the next few days and the time till your stuff is due and . . .
Woman
Uh-huh . . . [meaning “I’m listening”]
Man
I mean think about what you need to do and when you have to do it by. You know, then start filling in your schedule—like, all right, 9:00 [nine] to 11:30 [eleven thirty] A.M., study for exam; 12:00 [twelve] to 3:00 [three], work on problem set. But I mean don’t make the time periods too long. Like, don’t put in eight hours of studying—you know, you’ll get tired, or start worrying about your other work again. But if you keep to your schedule, you know, you’ll just have to worry about one thing at a time.
Woman
[somewhat noncommittally] Yeah, that might work.
When the conversation has ended, the picture of the two students will be replaced by a screen instructing you to get ready to answer the question. Then the ques- tion will appear on the screen and will be read aloud by the narrator.
The students discuss two possible solutions to the woman’s problem. Describe the problem. Then state which of the two solutions you prefer and explain why.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 677.0 599.738853503 113% => OK
No of words: 176.0 158.596602972 111% => OK
Chars per words: 3.84659090909 3.77925476217 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.64232057368 3.54123138178 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.00688864027 1.79916674678 112% => OK
Unique words: 92.0 95.8789808917 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522727272727 0.607024082132 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 221.4 189.005732484 117% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19129511677 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0716064757161 0.0831539838537 86% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 4.29936305732 70% => OK
Average paragraph length: 58.6666666667 70.8089261375 83% => OK
STD paragraph length: 51.2271629336 23.6022091992 217% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 20.2 25.9380837976 78% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 18.1245818343 8.54438981162 212% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 46.0 40.7070063694 113% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.82608695652 4.24305496596 90% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.55635906019 3.29867071766 77% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.29456521739 1.4825078846 87% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.769394755132 1.02222390891 75% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 43.0 38.0 113% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 9.2 7.14643312102 129% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.213953488372 0.189447223375 113% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.167167087209 0.156783300276 107% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.83 46.7170700637 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.271761363636 0.297490414073 91% => OK
STD word duration: 0.16210535956 0.186336302485 87% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 7.29723991507 96% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.9 5.7916985138 85% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.33 3.38276008493 39% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.6 59.3491295117 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.01 0.989152158528 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.709570957096 0.642608181899 110% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.90429042904 2.6701766005 109% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.51815181518 1.61481078811 94% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.92347898808 2.05366198651 94% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.250060579545 0.327712499341 76% => 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.