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: 437.0 444.711560045 98% => OK
No of words: 119.0 116.580246914 102% => OK
Chars per words: 3.67226890756 3.81502700369 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.30283395202 3.28032121604 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.85666749306 1.8723322822 99% => OK
Unique words: 80.0 76.076318743 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.672268907563 0.655143326166 103% => OK
Syllable count: 143.1 141.574747475 101% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0510575870486 0.0738818816272 69% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 3.20202020202 187% => OK
Average paragraph length: 20.3333333333 60.3232687746 34% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 21.3827552533 17.3634065801 123% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 8.245 22.9064221017 36% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 8.59053500468 6.49597621602 132% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 50.0 31.1548821549 160% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.38 4.0588447711 59% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.83182968641 3.18357895611 58% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 0.9076 1.46810986539 62% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.545866503827 1.01537252472 54% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 48.0 28.6644219978 167% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 11.3 5.28593714927 214% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.235416666667 0.187982170178 125% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.176375054138 0.154715141812 114% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 31.93 35.408047138 90% => OK
Average word duration: 0.268319327731 0.306236595465 88% => OK
STD word duration: 0.188983656435 0.198589292138 95% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 6.3164983165 95% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.01 5.14435465769 97% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.5 2.80480359147 160% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 49.47 45.0716498316 110% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.09933333333 1.00159221848 110% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.970285021225 0.637764685501 152% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.40549828179 2.58495923209 93% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.61714170204 1.68816559523 96% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.50548073912 2.15290372801 116% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.334989537815 0.343871460585 97% => 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.