A friend of yours is thinking of taking a year off to work before going to a university. Explain to your friend why this is or is not a good idea.

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2319.0 444.711560045 521% => OK
No of words: 494.0 116.580246914 424% => Need less no. of words.
Chars per words: 4.69433198381 3.81502700369 123% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71445763274 3.28032121604 144% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.42825978972 1.8723322822 130% => OK
Unique words: 269.0 76.076318743 354% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.544534412955 0.655143326166 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 743.4 141.574747475 525% => The syllable count is high.
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.21358024691 124% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0498540053753 0.0738818816272 67% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 34.0 3.20202020202 1062% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 14.5294117647 60.3232687746 24% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 8.37445448309 17.3634065801 48% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 5.12411764706 22.9064221017 22% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 2.90916312774 6.49597621602 45% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 73.0 31.1548821549 234% => Need less acoustic sentences.
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.76712328767 4.0588447711 167% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.17927223115 3.18357895611 131% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.19232876712 1.46810986539 149% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.23256778474 1.01537252472 121% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 23.0 28.6644219978 80% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.13 5.28593714927 97% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.223043478261 0.187982170178 119% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.127328222993 0.154715141812 82% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 144.63 35.408047138 408% => Less content wanted.
Average word duration: 0.292773279352 0.306236595465 96% => OK
STD word duration: 0.18688638112 0.198589292138 94% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 6.3164983165 127% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.31 5.14435465769 123% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 18.75 2.80480359147 668% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 174.22 45.0716498316 387% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 3.87155555556 1.00159221848 387% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.132016990013 0.637764685501 21% => More acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.83549535071 2.58495923209 110% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.54402479623 1.68816559523 91% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.8599184125 2.15290372801 86% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.739722364372 0.343871460585 215% => Good job. You may have good pronunciations.

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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.