Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which solution you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation.
1. Hey Steve!
2. Are you ready for classes to start?
3. Not really!
4. There is still a big conflict in my course schedule.
5. What's wrong?
6. This is my last semester, and I've still got two required courses left to take in order to finish my literature degree.
7. OK?
8. I have to take both History of the Novel and Shakespeare, or I can't graduate.
9. Problem is the two courses meet at the same time.
10. Uh oh!
11. What are you gonna do?
12. Well, I talked to the professor who's gonna teach Shakespeare.
13. He said I could do an independent study to fulfill that requirement.
14. How would that work?
15. I'd read the assigned texts on my own, do all the same assignments and meet with him when I need to, if I have any questions.
16. Well, that sounds like a good way to fulfill the requirement.
17. Yeah, plus it would be nice to have one-on-one discussions with the professor.
18. It's just that… well, working on my own like that?
19. I am kind of concerned I won't be able to motivate myself enough to get the work done on time.
20. It is easy to put things off when it is not actual class, you know.
21. Are there other options?
22. Emm, yeah.
23. I found out that the shaksper class is being offered at another university about half an hour from here.
24. That university has a really great literature program and our university will accept their credits, so
25. That's an idea.
26. Yeah, I am sure it'd be a good class and it'll fulfill the requirement.
27. Only thing is, you know, I have to drive a half a hour to get to the class and a half an hour to come back, three times a week.
28. That's a lot of time and gas in money
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 738.0 599.738853503 123% => OK
No of words: 186.0 158.596602972 117% => OK
Chars per words: 3.96774193548 3.77925476217 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.69299088775 3.54123138178 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.87485691442 1.79916674678 104% => OK
Unique words: 121.0 95.8789808917 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.650537634409 0.607024082132 107% => OK
Syllable count: 227.7 189.005732484 120% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19129511677 101% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0891147444395 0.0831539838537 107% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 4.29936305732 140% => OK
Average paragraph length: 31.0 70.8089261375 44% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 20.3960780544 23.6022091992 86% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 9.71333333333 25.9380837976 37% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.7635772071 8.54438981162 67% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 41.0 40.7070063694 101% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.53658536585 4.24305496596 107% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.54825660369 3.29867071766 108% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.3287804878 1.4825078846 90% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.937410015511 1.02222390891 92% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 35.0 38.0 92% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.62 7.14643312102 93% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.189142857143 0.189447223375 100% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.15786742048 0.156783300276 101% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.58 46.7170700637 98% => OK
Average word duration: 0.245053763441 0.297490414073 82% => OK
STD word duration: 0.145414673321 0.186336302485 78% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 3.0 7.29723991507 41% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.26 5.7916985138 39% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.79 3.38276008493 112% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.28 59.3491295117 98% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.971333333333 0.989152158528 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.600549073439 0.642608181899 93% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.1914893617 2.6701766005 120% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.0761839396 1.61481078811 129% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.65467310224 2.05366198651 129% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.210850758065 0.327712499341 64% => It may have issues on recording quality or you may have pronounciation issues.
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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.