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: 451.0 444.711560045 101% => OK
No of words: 113.0 116.580246914 97% => 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: 3.99115044248 3.81502700369 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.2603904387 3.28032121604 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.03289572978 1.8723322822 109% => OK
Unique words: 74.0 76.076318743 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.654867256637 0.655143326166 100% => OK
Syllable count: 140.4 141.574747475 99% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0526912792133 0.0738818816272 71% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 3.20202020202 125% => OK
Average paragraph length: 29.0 60.3232687746 48% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 48.4974226119 17.3634065801 279% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 12.145 22.9064221017 53% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 19.9215015749 6.49597621602 307% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 23.0 31.1548821549 74% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.91304347826 4.0588447711 121% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.70561317438 3.18357895611 116% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.00782608696 1.46810986539 137% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.29526548067 1.01537252472 128% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 21.0 28.6644219978 73% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.77 5.28593714927 71% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.179523809524 0.187982170178 96% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.100545000135 0.154715141812 65% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 40.69 35.408047138 115% => OK
Average word duration: 0.360088495575 0.306236595465 118% => OK
STD word duration: 0.166119136134 0.198589292138 84% => 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: 5.99 5.14435465769 116% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.72 2.80480359147 97% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 48.58 45.0716498316 108% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.07955555556 1.00159221848 108% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.432276657061 0.637764685501 68% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.32606010704 2.58495923209 90% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.52326060107 1.68816559523 90% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.81862865569 2.15290372801 84% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.359424176991 0.343871460585 105% => 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.