The students discuss a problem and two possible solutions. Briefly summarize the problem. Then state which of the two solutions you prefer and explain why.
1. By the way, Frank, I heard you got a summer research position with Professor Davis.
2. Uh, huh... but, I've got a problem.
3. Yeah, well, since I didn't hear from her for so long I assumed I didn't get the position.
4. So I didn't apply for a dorm room for the summer.
5. I'm afraid it's too late for that now.
6. Yeah, the deadline for campus housing applications has already passed.
7. So what are you gonna do now?
8. Well, I can stay with my parents.
9. They live two hours from here.
10. So I thought I could drive and commute to campus every day.
11. I know my mom and dad would be happy to have me over for a few weeks, and most of my old friends will be home for the summer.
12. So in a way it'd be fun.
13. Yeah, I understand.
14. But you'd spend quite a bit of time on the road going back and forth.
15. Won't you get tired?
16. Yeah, that thought did cross my mind.
17. The other thing I could do is rent an apartment off campus.
18. Besides being much closer to work, I'd also save tons of money on gas.
19. Uh huh, but then you'd have to pay rent.
20. I know... there's always something, isn't there?
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 642.0 599.738853503 107% => OK
No of words: 171.0 158.596602972 108% => OK
Chars per words: 3.75438596491 3.77925476217 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.61617157096 3.54123138178 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.74329829646 1.79916674678 97% => OK
Unique words: 97.0 95.8789808917 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.567251461988 0.607024082132 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 196.2 189.005732484 104% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.19129511677 92% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0777056797244 0.0831539838537 93% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.29936305732 47% => OK
Average paragraph length: 85.5 70.8089261375 121% => OK
STD paragraph length: 0.5 23.6022091992 2% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 30.015 25.9380837976 116% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 1.245 8.54438981162 15% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 42.0 40.7070063694 103% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.07142857143 4.24305496596 96% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.8484988289 3.29867071766 86% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.33142857143 1.4825078846 90% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.859040360016 1.02222390891 84% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 42.0 38.0 111% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 10.96 7.14643312102 153% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.260952380952 0.189447223375 138% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.220171032261 0.156783300276 140% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 43.4 46.7170700637 93% => OK
Average word duration: 0.253801169591 0.297490414073 85% => OK
STD word duration: 0.128241120659 0.186336302485 69% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 2.0 7.29723991507 27% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 1.47 5.7916985138 25% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.47 3.38276008493 103% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.03 59.3491295117 101% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.0005 0.989152158528 101% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.699650174913 0.642608181899 109% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.84857571214 2.6701766005 107% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.6158587373 1.61481078811 100% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.23502304147 2.05366198651 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.229922350877 0.327712499341 70% => OK
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.