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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 617.0 592.248995984 104% => OK
No of words: 149.0 155.574297189 96% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 4.14093959732 3.80514564318 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.49378814695 3.525876923 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.07904254625 1.79077849142 116% => OK
Unique words: 96.0 93.7148594378 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.644295302013 0.604071249207 107% => OK
Syllable count: 199.8 185.844578313 108% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19417670683 109% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.164929294173 0.0650381309087 254% => Good job. The more, the better.

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.35341365462 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 149.0 68.503853103 218% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 59.72 25.9943957902 230% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 7.84667146824 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 32.0 42.0642570281 76% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.65625 4.02192344571 116% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.70480578944 3.1217529195 119% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.7659375 1.45093177766 122% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.19538137056 0.99851816184 120% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 26.0 39.0421686747 67% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.38 7.12997991968 89% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.245384615385 0.185688545393 132% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.218565793109 0.155154303396 141% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.46 47.1480722892 101% => OK
Average word duration: 0.318523489933 0.305395592593 104% => OK
STD word duration: 0.170905114532 0.189427763521 90% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 7.94979919679 88% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.78 6.2937751004 76% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.99 3.39508032129 118% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.72 59.7592369478 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.995333333333 0.995987282463 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.435365036839 0.656000678711 66% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.49497655727 2.60215298798 96% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.60750167448 1.56821927147 103% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.02275600506 1.99336655568 101% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.519767892617 0.317803793328 164% => 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.

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better conclusion:
Even through lions are extinct in North America, pronghorns still run that fast. The speed doesn’t serve its original purpose but becomes a relict behavior.