Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which solution you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation.
1. Hey Sarah, when did your play open?
2. The one you wrote and are directing?
3. In one week
4. And how is it coming along?
5. Well, the rehearsals have been going on pretty well.
6. There is just one problem.
7. What's that?
8. We have a guy named Bill playing one of the supporting roles, one of the minor characters.
9. OK?
10. And he just can't remember his lines.
11. All the other actors have their parts memorized except Bill.
12. We will be in the middle of rehearsing a big scene and he will forget what he is supposed to say next.
13. I thought he'd eventually improve, but now I am not sure he'll be ready for opening tonight.
14. Oh, no, that's not good.
15. What can you do at this point?
16. Well, I could replace him.
17. There are other actors on campus, actors who could play the part.
18. Yeah, since it's such a minor role, another actor could probably learn the part in time.
19. That's true.
20. It's just that I don't know how he'd feel about that.
21. Removing him from the play could hurt his feelings and he was really looking forward to being in it.
22. I see.
23. Well, could you, I mean maybe another thing you could do is spend time with him after rehearsals.
24. You know, work with him to help him learn and remember his lines.
25. Yeah, I could do that.
26. But there are other parts of the production I try to take care of after rehearsals so it'd take away from other things that I need to do before opening night.
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 537.0 599.738853503 90% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 156.0 158.596602972 98% => 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: 3.44230769231 3.77925476217 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.53411884305 3.54123138178 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.4377706417 1.79916674678 80% => Word Length is similar.
Unique words: 85.0 95.8789808917 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.544871794872 0.607024082132 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 171.0 189.005732484 90% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.19129511677 92% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0746399719002 0.0831539838537 90% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 8.0 4.29936305732 186% => OK
Average paragraph length: 19.5 70.8089261375 28% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 9.51314879522 23.6022091992 40% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 7.05875 25.9380837976 27% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 3.79493556434 8.54438981162 44% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 43.0 40.7070063694 106% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.62790697674 4.24305496596 86% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.48739385249 3.29867071766 75% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.20837209302 1.4825078846 82% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.815828670547 1.02222390891 80% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 37.0 38.0 97% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.99 7.14643312102 98% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.188918918919 0.189447223375 100% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.192463177016 0.156783300276 123% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 42.3 46.7170700637 91% => OK
Average word duration: 0.271153846154 0.297490414073 91% => OK
STD word duration: 0.164799651241 0.186336302485 88% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 7.29723991507 69% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.34 5.7916985138 75% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 5.12 3.38276008493 151% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.47 59.3491295117 95% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.941166666667 0.989152158528 95% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.655215158491 0.642608181899 102% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.76252877634 2.6701766005 103% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.50522401275 1.61481078811 93% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.00945626478 2.05366198651 98% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.252488224359 0.327712499341 77% => OK
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Rates: 63.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 19.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.