TPO 08 - Question 3
Music Coming to Cafeterias
Mary Dixon, Director of the Student Life Committee, announced yesterday that beginning next semester university cafeterias will broadcast classical music during mealtimes. “Music will foster a more relaxed atmosphere.” said Dixon, "Students' lives are hectic, and mealtimes provide important opportunities to take a break and catch up with friends before moving on to the next class or assignment." Added Dixon. "We're also hoping that, if we provide the music, students will unplug their personal music devices—their walkmans and mp3 players or whatever—and will spend more time talking to each other. When students have their headphones on. they're not connecting with each other."
1. Did you read this article?
2. Are they serious?
3. Yeah, I think so, why?
4. Well, first of all, a lot of kids aren't looking for a relaxing break at lunch time.
5. They like to study while they eat, especially if they have exams coming up or some assignment they have to get done.
6. Yeah, that's true.
7. And now they won't to be able to concentrate.
8. This is gonna be very distracting.
9. Hm, ok, yeah, I see your point.
10. And second, most students don't like classical music.
11. It's certainly not what I listen to.
12. So are people going to stop listening to their own music?
13. No.
14. I think people are going to be even more likely to bring their mp3 player, you know, to play their own music and block out the classical stuff.
15. Yeah, that makes sense.
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 632.0 593.389002037 107% => OK
No of words: 158.0 154.784114053 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.0 3.82920900774 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.54539209256 3.52088357496 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.932401929 1.81998168104 106% => OK
Unique words: 94.0 93.7942973523 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.594936708861 0.608046397892 98% => OK
Syllable count: 198.9 185.724439919 107% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.116351555873 0.0833886788687 140% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 5.0 3.90020366599 128% => OK
Average paragraph length: 31.6 71.3690273242 44% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 23.4827596334 24.1299301424 97% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 10.638 26.8388033085 40% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 7.80170853083 8.89323425527 88% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 34.0 40.266802444 84% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.64705882353 4.20756893501 110% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.69948091896 3.23972648638 83% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.45735294118 1.51236819293 96% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.833410106037 1.0352206224 81% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 29.0 37.9022403259 77% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.07 7.22384928717 98% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.243793103448 0.193825474362 126% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.233421533639 0.16431695912 142% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 40.47 46.6644602851 87% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.256139240506 0.304040633073 84% => OK
STD word duration: 0.129818396443 0.193491353168 67% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 1.0 8.88594704684 11% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 0.66 6.97134419552 9% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.67 3.21433808554 114% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 53.19 59.1375356415 90% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.8865 0.985625594026 90% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.545215266027 0.643888735843 85% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.97048317353 2.61565628039 114% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.76724948299 1.58604529434 111% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.3227081789 2.01333574461 115% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.219332936709 0.322651457988 68% => It may have issues on recording quality or you may have pronounciation issues.
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.