University Makes Changes to Orientation ProgramMadison University is making a change to the orientation program for first-year students. In the past, as part of orientation, new, incoming students could go on a two-day hiking and camping trip together wit

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University Makes Changes to Orientation Program
Madison University is making a change to the orientation program for first-year students. In the past, as part of orientation, new, incoming students could go on a two-day hiking and camping trip together with other incoming students on the weekend before classes begin. In order to encourage more students to take advantage of the opportunity to get to know one another in an informal setting, the university will now offer a choice of activities: students will be able to either go hiking or participate in organized group games on campus. Additionally, these activities will last one day only, not two, a change many students had requested.

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 551.0 593.389002037 93% => OK
No of words: 127.0 154.784114053 82% => 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: 4.33858267717 3.82920900774 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.35699682299 3.52088357496 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.08564826849 1.81998168104 115% => OK
Unique words: 88.0 93.7942973523 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.692913385827 0.608046397892 114% => OK
Syllable count: 173.7 185.724439919 94% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.20224032587 116% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.043846486383 0.0833886788687 53% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 3.90020366599 103% => OK
Average paragraph length: 34.25 71.3690273242 48% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 17.9774163883 24.1299301424 75% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 14.2325 26.8388033085 53% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 7.34947744741 8.89323425527 83% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 43.0 40.266802444 107% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.95348837209 4.20756893501 70% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.03405298657 3.23972648638 63% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.13325581395 1.51236819293 75% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.672664680036 1.0352206224 65% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 36.0 37.9022403259 95% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.41 7.22384928717 61% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.1225 0.193825474362 63% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.1189391768 0.16431695912 72% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 41.29 46.6644602851 88% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.325118110236 0.304040633073 107% => OK
STD word duration: 0.179614048789 0.193491353168 93% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 3.0 8.88594704684 34% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.42 6.97134419552 35% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 6.31 3.21433808554 196% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.93 59.1375356415 96% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.948833333333 0.985625594026 96% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.632355524328 0.643888735843 98% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.23080976638 2.61565628039 85% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.54575794836 1.58604529434 97% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.13126665052 2.01333574461 106% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.342804393701 0.322651457988 106% => OK

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Don't repeat words, phrases and sentences. or More unique words wanted.

Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.