The speakers discuss two possible solutions to the man‘s problem. Briefly summarize the problem. Then state which solution you recommend and explain why.
1. Hey , Mark, how is it going?
2. Hm…not so good.
3. What's wrong?
4. Well, you know I am the president of the anthropology club.
5. Well, I am supposed to drive everyone in the club to see a special exhibit at the museum tomorrow.
6. My mom said I could borrow her van, you know, so everyone would fit.
7. But unfortunately, it broke down and it is not gonna be repaired in time for the trip.
8. Oh.
9. So what are you going to do?
10. Can you rent a van?
11. Yeah, that's a possibility.
12. It's a little risky for me thought.
13. I've tried to get in touch with the club members, but only four have gotten back to me and said they'd contribute some money to the cost.
14. What about the other member?
15. I don't know.
16. It'd probably be ok with them too, but that's the risk.
17. I don't know for sure.
18. I don't want to get stuck with having to pay for the most of the bill.
19. Well, since not everyone has gotten back to you, why don't you just postpone the trip, you know, until your mom's van is repaired?
20. Yeah, I could do that, though I am sure everyone could be real disappointed if they show up tomorrow ready to go and find out that we are not going.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 767.0 599.738853503 128% => OK
No of words: 196.0 158.596602972 124% => OK
Chars per words: 3.91326530612 3.77925476217 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.74165738677 3.54123138178 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.94769029906 1.79916674678 108% => OK
Unique words: 109.0 95.8789808917 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55612244898 0.607024082132 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 240.3 189.005732484 127% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19129511677 101% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0761811573945 0.0831539838537 92% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.29936305732 47% => OK
Average paragraph length: 98.0 70.8089261375 138% => OK
STD paragraph length: 56.0 23.6022091992 237% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 29.43 25.9380837976 113% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 18.28 8.54438981162 214% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 29.0 40.7070063694 71% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.75862068966 4.24305496596 159% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.30227779559 3.29867071766 161% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.93034482759 1.4825078846 130% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.21465613911 1.02222390891 119% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 29.0 38.0 76% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.96 7.14643312102 125% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.308965517241 0.189447223375 163% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.260176926905 0.156783300276 166% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.86 46.7170700637 98% => OK
Average word duration: 0.233979591837 0.297490414073 79% => Maybe the speed rate is very high.
STD word duration: 0.131674767824 0.186336302485 71% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 2.0 7.29723991507 27% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 1.51 5.7916985138 26% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.75 3.38276008493 52% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.86 59.3491295117 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.981 0.989152158528 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.492694529392 0.642608181899 77% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.32993544003 2.6701766005 125% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.85185185185 1.61481078811 115% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.37679895334 2.05366198651 116% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.328414464286 0.327712499341 100% => 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.