The woman expresses her opinion about the university’s plan. Briefly summarize the plan. Then state her opinion and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion.
Switch to Electronic Textbooks
The university will begin switching from traditional-bound textbooks early next year. University students will be able to download the content of their required textbooks to a reading device and read the material directly from the device’s screen. While the cost of the device is around $200, it is a one-time expense. Considering the rising cost of textbooks, students will save money in the long run since purchasing electronic books for their classes is much less expensive than buying regular textbooks. Furthermore, the university believes the device will be an effective study aid because it is simple to operate and offers features such as highlighting of text and note-taking.
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 669.0 593.389002037 113% => OK
No of words: 180.0 154.784114053 116% => OK
Chars per words: 3.71666666667 3.82920900774 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.66284150148 3.52088357496 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.732932646 1.81998168104 95% => OK
Unique words: 109.0 93.7942973523 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.605555555556 0.608046397892 100% => OK
Syllable count: 220.5 185.724439919 119% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.00720934340776 0.0833886788687 9% => 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: 2.0 3.90020366599 51% => OK
Average paragraph length: 92.0 71.3690273242 129% => OK
STD paragraph length: 41.0 24.1299301424 170% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 29.53 26.8388033085 110% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 13.11 8.89323425527 147% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 29.0 40.266802444 72% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.20689655172 4.20756893501 148% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.8521542343 3.23972648638 150% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.88896551724 1.51236819293 125% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.36906800624 1.0352206224 132% => 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: 5.51 7.22384928717 76% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.19 0.193825474362 98% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.165529453572 0.16431695912 101% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.22 46.6644602851 101% => OK
Average word duration: 0.262333333333 0.304040633073 86% => OK
STD word duration: 0.163961716399 0.193491353168 85% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 8.88594704684 90% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.93 6.97134419552 85% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.92 3.21433808554 91% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.06 59.1375356415 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.984333333333 0.985625594026 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.491026075178 0.643888735843 76% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.04774805283 2.61565628039 117% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.84558076532 1.58604529434 116% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.30834392207 2.01333574461 115% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.275194344444 0.322651457988 85% => 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.