TPO 23 - Question 3
No More International News
For the past few years, the daily campus newspaper has included a one-page international news section covering a few of the major stories in world news. Starting next month, the section will be eliminated. One of the reasons the newspaper editors gave for the decision to cut the section is that other news sources are better able to provide wider and more up-to-date international news coverage. The editors also noted that the change would create space for a new calendar page that will list events and activities around campus.
The woman expresses her opinion about the plan announced in the article. Briefly summarize the plan. Then state her opinion about the plan and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion.
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 697.0 593.389002037 117% => OK
No of words: 187.0 154.784114053 121% => OK
Chars per words: 3.72727272727 3.82920900774 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.69794460899 3.52088357496 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.04376043927 1.81998168104 112% => OK
Unique words: 117.0 93.7942973523 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.625668449198 0.608046397892 103% => OK
Syllable count: 223.2 185.724439919 120% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0677364100869 0.0833886788687 81% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.90020366599 51% => OK
Average paragraph length: 93.5 71.3690273242 131% => OK
STD paragraph length: 52.5 24.1299301424 218% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 28.05 26.8388033085 105% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 16.1 8.89323425527 181% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 34.0 40.266802444 84% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.5 4.20756893501 131% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.03663052634 3.23972648638 155% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.60088235294 1.51236819293 106% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.26049562532 1.0352206224 122% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 35.0 37.9022403259 92% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.19 7.22384928717 72% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.148285714286 0.193825474362 77% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.0979354222882 0.16431695912 60% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.69 46.6644602851 102% => OK
Average word duration: 0.255026737968 0.304040633073 84% => OK
STD word duration: 0.146679374342 0.193491353168 76% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 8.88594704684 68% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.24 6.97134419552 61% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.97 3.21433808554 30% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.1 59.1375356415 95% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.935 0.985625594026 95% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.623885918004 0.643888735843 97% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.33333333333 2.61565628039 127% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.08556149733 1.58604529434 131% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.45334451667 2.01333574461 122% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.302359016043 0.322651457988 94% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.