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Voice Analysis for Stress Detection and Application in Virtual Reality to Improve Public Speaking in Real-time: A Review
Stress during public speaking is common and adversely affects performance and
self-confidence. Extensive research has been carried out to develop various
models to recognize emotional states. However, minimal research has been
conducted to detect stress during public speaking in real time using voice
analysis. In this context, the current review showed that the application of
algorithms was not properly explored and helped identify the main obstacles in
creating a suitable testing environment while accounting for current
complexities and limitations. In this paper, we present our main idea and
propose a stress detection computational algorithmic model that could be
integrated into a Virtual Reality (VR) application to create an intelligent
virtual audience for improving public speaking skills. The developed model,
when integrated with VR, will be able to detect excessive stress in real time
by analysing voice features correlated to physiological parameters indicative
of stress and help users gradually control excessive stress and improve public
speaking performanceComment: 41 pages, 7 figures, 4 table
THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION APPROACH TOWARDSTHE MOTIVATORS’ SPEECHIN ORIFLAME SEMINAR
Language often serves to maintain the separate identity of speech communities within larger
communities.Culture is set of learning core values, belief, standard, knowledge, moral, law, and
behavior shared by individual and societies that determines how an individual acts, feels and views
one and others. The society’s culture which is passed from generation to generation, and aspects
such as language, religion, custom, moral and ethics will eventually manifest how an individual does
business, negotiates a contract or deal with potential business relationship. The study analyzes
business motivator’s speech acts and verbal creativities of communicative event in Oriflame
Motivational Seminar through approaching ethnography of communication. This study also explains
how the business motivators or the leaders can motivate Oriflame consultants to run the business
well, although the consultants are from different age, social class, region, status, and occupation,
they can communicate and do team-work well.
The purpose of the study is to describe speech events of Oriflame Seminar. The purpose of
the study are;1)
This journal is considered comprehensive field with numerous theoretical approaches, the
writer chooses to focus on the following approaches such as speech act of communication, and the
elements of ethnography of communication
Continuous Interaction with a Virtual Human
Attentive Speaking and Active Listening require that a Virtual Human be capable of simultaneous perception/interpretation and production of communicative behavior. A Virtual Human should be able to signal its attitude and attention while it is listening to its interaction partner, and be able to attend to its interaction partner while it is speaking – and modify its communicative behavior on-the-fly based on what it perceives from its partner. This report presents the results of a four week summer project that was part of eNTERFACE’10. The project resulted in progress on several aspects of continuous interaction such as scheduling and interrupting multimodal behavior, automatic classification of listener responses, generation of response eliciting behavior, and models for appropriate reactions to listener responses. A pilot user study was conducted with ten participants. In addition, the project yielded a number of deliverables that are released for public access
Revisiting delivery in the basic course
When comparing the ancient and modern pedagogies of speech and speech delivery, discrepancies begin to emerge. The significance of delivery in today’s speech pedagogy, for instance, is minimal, which is perhaps most evident in the foundational public speaking course (basic course) textbook. As my thesis demonstrates, speech composition receives far more consideration than speech performance, which marginalizes the canon of delivery as inferior to both rhetoric and speech communication. Supporting this notion is McClish (2016), who argues that while delivery remains germane to contemporary public speaking pedagogy, its treatment in the twenty-first-century basic course is widely understated. Moreover, McClish (2016) argues that, “contemporary speech pedagogy strives to communicate the importance of delivery to oratorical activity, but not its essential role in establishing extraordinary speech or eloquence” (p. 174). Eloquence, according to Emerson (1904), “…is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak” (p. 130).
Unlike Aristotle’s other rhetorical canons (invention, arrangement, style, and memory), delivery is presented as a formality to speech, but not a skill worth mastering. By under emphasizing the role of delivery in public oration, textbook authors and editors are doing a disservice to instructors, students, and the discipline. I argue that by reevaluating delivery’s role in course textbooks and the field of rhetoric, the foundational public speaking course will produce more persuasive and captivating public speakers. However, as my research shows, the textbook is not the only example of delivery’s overshadowing. Animosities against delivery emerged thousands of years prior to this thesis. To begin my argument, I first turn to the current structuring of the basic communication course.
Keywords: basic course, rhetoric, delivery, genre, textbooks, persuasion, public speakin
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