TPO 08 - Question 5
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
Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which solution you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation.
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 723.0 599.738853503 121% => OK
No of words: 177.0 158.596602972 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.08474576271 3.77925476217 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.64748333727 3.54123138178 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.26459960612 1.79916674678 126% => OK
Unique words: 107.0 95.8789808917 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.604519774011 0.607024082132 100% => OK
Syllable count: 227.7 189.005732484 120% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19129511677 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0828109279468 0.0831539838537 100% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.29936305732 47% => OK
Average paragraph length: 88.5 70.8089261375 125% => OK
STD paragraph length: 24.5 23.6022091992 104% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 30.285 25.9380837976 117% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 6.095 8.54438981162 71% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 36.0 40.7070063694 88% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.91666666667 4.24305496596 116% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.91242755106 3.29867071766 149% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.61083333333 1.4825078846 109% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.28240307193 1.02222390891 125% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 29.0 38.0 76% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.89 7.14643312102 82% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.203103448276 0.189447223375 107% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.122730527587 0.156783300276 78% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 49.28 46.7170700637 105% => OK
Average word duration: 0.278418079096 0.297490414073 94% => OK
STD word duration: 0.161947139701 0.186336302485 87% => 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: 4.15 5.7916985138 72% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.19 3.38276008493 94% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.57 59.3491295117 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.0095 0.989152158528 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.478784877002 0.642608181899 75% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.92223873205 2.6701766005 109% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.7665510979 1.61481078811 109% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.17126623377 2.05366198651 106% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.415347011299 0.327712499341 127% => OK
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.