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: 443.0 444.711560045 100% => OK
No of words: 124.0 116.580246914 106% => OK
Chars per words: 3.57258064516 3.81502700369 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.33699396548 3.28032121604 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.63220307825 1.8723322822 87% => OK
Unique words: 79.0 76.076318743 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.637096774194 0.655143326166 97% => OK
Syllable count: 139.5 141.574747475 99% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0370808674921 0.0738818816272 50% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 62.0 60.3232687746 103% => OK
STD paragraph length: 8.0 17.3634065801 46% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 22.965 22.9064221017 100% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 4.715 6.49597621602 73% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 25.0 31.1548821549 80% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.96 4.0588447711 122% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.08391968579 3.18357895611 128% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.7876 1.46810986539 122% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.1266952738 1.01537252472 111% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 25.0 28.6644219978 87% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.18 5.28593714927 98% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.2072 0.187982170178 110% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.208125346847 0.154715141812 135% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.7 35.408047138 106% => OK
Average word duration: 0.304032258065 0.306236595465 99% => OK
STD word duration: 0.180375590916 0.198589292138 91% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 6.3164983165 111% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.45 5.14435465769 106% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.5 2.80480359147 53% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.93 45.0716498316 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.02066666667 1.00159221848 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.544306553451 0.637764685501 85% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.69976050512 2.58495923209 104% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.7200087089 1.68816559523 102% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.09549071618 2.15290372801 97% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.338647983871 0.343871460585 98% => 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.