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: 536.0 444.711560045 121% => OK
No of words: 134.0 116.580246914 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.0 3.81502700369 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.40232815919 3.28032121604 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.08405460151 1.8723322822 111% => OK
Unique words: 91.0 76.076318743 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.679104477612 0.655143326166 104% => OK
Syllable count: 166.5 141.574747475 118% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0461347362918 0.0738818816272 62% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 134.0 60.3232687746 222% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 46.6 22.9064221017 203% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 27.0 31.1548821549 87% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.96296296296 4.0588447711 122% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.10890574392 3.18357895611 98% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.69888888889 1.46810986539 116% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.08723684201 1.01537252472 107% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 27.0 28.6644219978 94% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.25 5.28593714927 61% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.12037037037 0.187982170178 64% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.127554824276 0.154715141812 82% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 41.2 35.408047138 116% => OK
Average word duration: 0.307462686567 0.306236595465 100% => OK
STD word duration: 0.186414265705 0.198589292138 94% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 11.0 6.3164983165 174% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 8.06 5.14435465769 157% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.5 2.80480359147 18% => Good job. The lower, the better.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 46.6 45.0716498316 103% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.03555555556 1.00159221848 103% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.579399141631 0.637764685501 91% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.87553648069 2.58495923209 111% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.95278969957 1.68816559523 116% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.20873786408 2.15290372801 103% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.367914216418 0.343871460585 107% => 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.