Response to the Plan for an Additional Lighting System
I oppose the university’s plan to purchase an additional outdoor lighting system. The university says it would make our historic campus more attractive by illuminating our buildings at night. However, the university would spend an extra $1,000 per month for electricity. Instead, I recommend the money be used to complete the library renovation project as quickly as possible.
That’s not the only reason we shouldn't get the new system. These powerful lights would brighten the sky as well as the buildings and seriously interfere with the use of our astronomy equipment. Our academic mission must come first - and the practice of astronomy is done best when the sky is darkest.
—R. N. Heinrich, Professor of Astronomy
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 485.0 593.389002037 82% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 134.0 154.784114053 87% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.61940298507 3.82920900774 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.40232815919 3.52088357496 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.86801345564 1.81998168104 103% => OK
Unique words: 85.0 93.7942973523 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.634328358209 0.608046397892 104% => OK
Syllable count: 165.6 185.724439919 89% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0298875303033 0.0833886788687 36% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.90020366599 51% => OK
Average paragraph length: 67.0 71.3690273242 94% => OK
STD paragraph length: 14.0 24.1299301424 58% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 24.075 26.8388033085 90% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.605 8.89323425527 7% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 41.0 40.266802444 102% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.26829268293 4.20756893501 78% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.7587942775 3.23972648638 85% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.14365853659 1.51236819293 76% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.85237331824 1.0352206224 82% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 41.0 37.9022403259 108% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.5 7.22384928717 90% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.158536585366 0.193825474362 82% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.0889659012675 0.16431695912 54% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 38.39 46.6644602851 82% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.286492537313 0.304040633073 94% => OK
STD word duration: 0.212480929654 0.193491353168 110% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 8.88594704684 45% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.41 6.97134419552 63% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.48 3.21433808554 46% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 48.15 59.1375356415 81% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.8025 0.985625594026 81% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.851505711319 0.643888735843 132% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.78296988577 2.61565628039 106% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.76531671859 1.58604529434 111% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.21411825996 2.01333574461 110% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.220002089552 0.322651457988 68% => It may have issues on recording quality or you may have pronounciation issues.
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.