TPO 20 - Question 3 Energy costs reach sky-high levels Heating prices, and the university’s heating bills, reached record-high level this year. In an effort to reduce heating costs, the university decides to lower the temperature in classroom buildings

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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 251.0 593.389002037 42% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 79.0 154.784114053 51% => 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: 3.17721518987 3.82920900774 83% => OK
Fourth root words length: 2.9813075013 3.52088357496 85% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.20924177175 1.81998168104 66% => Word Length is similar.
Unique words: 47.0 93.7942973523 50% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.594936708861 0.608046397892 98% => OK
Syllable count: 82.8 185.724439919 45% => The syllable count is low.
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.0 1.20224032587 83% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0173225619854 0.0833886788687 21% => 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: 17.0 3.90020366599 436% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 4.70588235294 71.3690273242 7% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 4.85997707429 24.1299301424 20% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 3.31235294118 26.8388033085 12% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 2.51649506354 8.89323425527 28% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 56.0 40.266802444 139% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 1.41071428571 4.20756893501 34% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 0.996006054813 3.23972648638 31% => The length of acoustic sentences keeps same.
Average acoustic sentences duration: 0.802142857143 1.51236819293 53% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.532878685892 1.0352206224 51% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 51.0 37.9022403259 135% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 12.07 7.22384928717 167% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.236666666667 0.193825474362 122% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.198777308314 0.16431695912 121% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 33.56 46.6644602851 72% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.424810126582 0.304040633073 140% => OK
STD word duration: 0.37100909525 0.193491353168 192% => It may have hesitations.

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 15.0 8.88594704684 169% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 15.12 6.97134419552 217% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 9.1 3.21433808554 283% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.31 59.1375356415 95% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.9385 0.985625594026 95% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.905700586042 0.643888735843 141% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 1.40294796661 2.61565628039 54% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 0.83466524596 1.58604529434 53% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.40047675805 2.01333574461 70% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.240561 0.322651457988 75% => OK

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.