is the ability to read and write is more important today then in the past?

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 480.0 444.711560045 108% => OK
No of words: 138.0 116.580246914 118% => OK
Chars per words: 3.47826086957 3.81502700369 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.42743929552 3.28032121604 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.80264456014 1.8723322822 96% => OK
Unique words: 89.0 76.076318743 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.644927536232 0.655143326166 98% => OK
Syllable count: 165.6 141.574747475 117% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0152658312808 0.0738818816272 21% => 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: 10.0 3.20202020202 312% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 14.3 60.3232687746 24% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 26.4123077371 17.3634065801 152% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 5.62 22.9064221017 25% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 8.71165311522 6.49597621602 134% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 30.0 31.1548821549 96% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.6 4.0588447711 113% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 6.01442709934 3.18357895611 189% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.50133333333 1.46810986539 102% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.66196817726 1.01537252472 164% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 26.0 28.6644219978 91% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.92 5.28593714927 112% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.227692307692 0.187982170178 121% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.182341768967 0.154715141812 118% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.39 35.408047138 106% => OK
Average word duration: 0.270942028986 0.306236595465 88% => OK
STD word duration: 0.145257830147 0.198589292138 73% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 6.3164983165 63% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 3.13 5.14435465769 61% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 11.1 2.80480359147 396% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.2 45.0716498316 125% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.24888888889 1.00159221848 125% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.462633451957 0.637764685501 73% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.45551601423 2.58495923209 95% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.58362989324 1.68816559523 94% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.3803155924 2.15290372801 111% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.322109246377 0.343871460585 94% => OK

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The speech is either too short or too long. It should be in 45 seconds.

Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.