Some people believe it's essential for a person's education to learn to play a musical instrument. Others don't believe music education is important. Which view do you agree with? Explain why.

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 435.0 444.711560045 98% => OK
No of words: 117.0 116.580246914 100% => OK
Chars per words: 3.71794871795 3.81502700369 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.28886816799 3.28032121604 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.5405968088 1.8723322822 82% => OK
Unique words: 81.0 76.076318743 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.692307692308 0.655143326166 106% => OK
Syllable count: 137.7 141.574747475 97% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0510891301526 0.0738818816272 69% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 3.20202020202 125% => OK
Average paragraph length: 29.25 60.3232687746 48% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 16.3916899678 17.3634065801 94% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 12.0325 22.9064221017 53% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 5.61680681081 6.49597621602 86% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 41.0 31.1548821549 132% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.85365853659 4.0588447711 70% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.19268157031 3.18357895611 69% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.09829268293 1.46810986539 75% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.713910230194 1.01537252472 70% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 44.0 28.6644219978 154% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.56 5.28593714927 143% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.171818181818 0.187982170178 91% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.176110408645 0.154715141812 114% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 35.66 35.408047138 101% => OK
Average word duration: 0.304786324786 0.306236595465 100% => OK
STD word duration: 0.138820417047 0.198589292138 70% => 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: 2.66 5.14435465769 52% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.26 2.80480359147 116% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 48.13 45.0716498316 107% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.06955555556 1.00159221848 107% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.91419073343 0.637764685501 143% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.43091626844 2.58495923209 94% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.682942032 1.68816559523 100% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.27145260796 2.15290372801 106% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.344592504274 0.343871460585 100% => OK

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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 45 seconds.

Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.