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TPO 19 - Question 3
Fee Increase for Recreation Center Use
The university administration today announced a $25 increase in the student fee for using the campus recreation center. The higher fee, which all students are required to pay, will provide funds to upgrade the facility and provide newer, more modern exercise equipment at the center. "We expect the improvements to increase student use of the facility," explained David Smith, director of the student activities office. Mr. Smith also noted that the decision was approved because "we feel that $25 is a reasonable increase that will be affordable for individual students."
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| 2017-03-18 | mahabub | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user chandr
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 492.0 593.389002037 83% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 131.0 154.784114053 85% => 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: 3.75572519084 3.82920900774 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.38312328216 3.52088357496 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.95401955288 1.81998168104 107% => OK
Unique words: 88.0 93.7942973523 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.671755725191 0.608046397892 110% => OK
Syllable count: 158.4 185.724439919 85% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0670434038626 0.0833886788687 80% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.90020366599 26% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 131.0 71.3690273242 184% => OK
STD paragraph length: 0.0 24.1299301424 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 43.59 26.8388033085 162% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 8.89323425527 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 24.0 40.266802444 60% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.45833333333 4.20756893501 130% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.96638002529 3.23972648638 153% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.78791666667 1.51236819293 118% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.34878024886 1.0352206224 130% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 26.0 37.9022403259 69% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.44 7.22384928717 61% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.170769230769 0.193825474362 88% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.104657796833 0.16431695912 64% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.11 46.6644602851 80% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.283282442748 0.304040633073 93% => OK
STD word duration: 0.160972439669 0.193491353168 83% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 8.88594704684 56% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.73 6.97134419552 54% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.46 3.21433808554 14% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 43.59 59.1375356415 74% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.7265 0.985625594026 74% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.596467079605 0.643888735843 93% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.00527643955 2.61565628039 115% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.01881165405 1.58604529434 127% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.37132848289 2.01333574461 118% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.302846129771 0.322651457988 94% => OK
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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.