The speakers discuss two possible solutions to the woman's problem. Briefly summarize the problem. Then state which of the solutions you recommend and explain why.
1. Hey Madison!
2. What's wrong?
3. Oh!
4. I'm just struggling about what to do.
5. I won an award from the Pacific Journalism Institute for an article I submitted, and...
6. ...doesn't sound like anything's wrong.
7. Well, it's a huge honor to win and there is an award ceremony they've invited me to attend, which I'm super excited about.
8. But, and here is what's frustrating, I've got a philosophy exam that's scheduled to end right when the ceremony begins.
9. Oh...you are saying you'll just be finishing up taking the exam right when the ceremony starts?
10. Exactly.
11. But those ceremonies never start on time.
12. They give long introductions, you know, have a general speech or something before they ever get to handing out awards.
13. I'm sure they won't be ready to hand out your award right at the beginning.
14. Just go when you are done with the test.
15. You won't miss anything important.
16. Maybe, but that's a bit risky.
17. I don't want to miss being there when they announce my name.
18. Well, have you talked to your professor about this?
19. Doctor Forester?
20. No.
21. Maybe she'll let you take the exam some other time.
22. True.
23. She lets people reschedule exams sometimes.
24. But she always makes them take it a couple of days early.
25. That would mean less studying time for me, which I'm not thrilled about.
26. Less time to study… oh.
27. Like I said, I am still struggling about what to do.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 785.0 599.738853503 131% => OK
No of words: 199.0 158.596602972 125% => OK
Chars per words: 3.94472361809 3.77925476217 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.75589349951 3.54123138178 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.95218207997 1.79916674678 109% => OK
Unique words: 113.0 95.8789808917 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.56783919598 0.607024082132 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 252.9 189.005732484 134% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19129511677 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0777861912301 0.0831539838537 94% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.29936305732 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 199.0 70.8089261375 281% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 23.6022091992 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 59.97 25.9380837976 231% => 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: 38.0 40.7070063694 93% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.23684210526 4.24305496596 123% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.16396957953 3.29867071766 126% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.54052631579 1.4825078846 104% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.07349146877 1.02222390891 105% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 38.0 38.0 100% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.47 7.14643312102 119% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.222894736842 0.189447223375 118% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.224463194671 0.156783300276 143% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.7 46.7170700637 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.239698492462 0.297490414073 81% => OK
STD word duration: 0.122613539006 0.186336302485 66% => 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: 1.49 5.7916985138 26% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.36 3.38276008493 40% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.97 59.3491295117 101% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 0.9995 0.989152158528 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.633650158413 0.642608181899 99% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.31832582958 2.6701766005 124% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.88427547107 1.61481078811 117% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.36897274633 2.05366198651 115% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.239911241206 0.327712499341 73% => 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.