2023-11-03 - Practice makes perfect - Chewing the Fat 📈

[GordonBeeming]

Hey Presenters,

We would like some feedback on "Speaker Coach" in PowerPoint

Do you know practice makes perfect?

[ricksu978]

Value from "Speaker Coach"

1. Never notice my pitch was too low
2. It's good to see my pace was just about right!

[tiagov8]

[brydeno]

It did make a few points. I did find that it's feedback made me worse for a short while afterwards. I will give this a try in more detail over full length stuff.

[GordonBeeming]

Interestingly, results and some learnings for other presentations from this demo. I'll be using this going forward

• ⭐ I didn't know about the Pronunciation feature (it lets your practice them inline afterward too)
• From the real-time feedback, I realize I start my bullet topics with an "umm", almost like an exhale 😅

Note: Results image is altered by moving the bottom boxes to the right for a wider image instead of a long page

[matt-goldman]

Calling BS on "like". I didn't use it as a filler word, I used it as a comparison word.

[jakebayliss]

Looks like im very monotone 🤖💀

[ozdemir-mehmet]

[Ben0189]

Interesting tools🤔

[amankumarrr]

An interesting feature for rehearsing presentations.

[AshAnil]

Interesting feature

[joshbermanssw]

Definitely an interesting tool to play around with prior to presentations.

[bahjatalaadelssw]

[SamBWagner]

It was cool. But I'm a presentation god so no need for any assistance

[cvionnet]

This tool is really interesting!

[wicksipedia]

looks like we need a ctf on how to take scrolling screenshots

[jimmidier]

Such a great tool, I'll definitely use it for my next presentation

[JerryLuo5799]

[AnkyChe]

[JimmyChenSSW]

My Chinese fellow use "Ummm" a lot, just like me🤣

[zl24622]

[tino-liu]

Very interesting tool!

[PothieuG]

Very interesting tool. I will probabaly use it when I will have to prepare a presentation !

[BrookJeynes]

[ozairashfaqueSSW]

Impressive tool, I would like to see the results when I have prepared for the presentation

[vladislav-kir]

It was interesting to see that it noticed that my pitch variation was low.

[bradystroud]

I have been using the same feature in ClipChamp for done videos, it is cool.

• It didn't like my Australian pronunciation of 'certified' (no 'r'). I wanted to test if changing the language to en au would have the same problem but I couldn't reproduce it on en us
• 💡Would be cool if it could play back your mistakes (I'm pretty sure I didn't say ummmmm and ahhhhhh at all)

Figure: looking at this discussion, we should do a CTF on scrolling screenshots

[Freego1783]

Did not know about this and I'll clearly use it when preparing a presentation !

[UlyssesMaclaren]

Didn't work for me. 0 words per minute? I'm guessing my mic is not connecting:

[AlexRothwell]

The rehearsal coach looks like a fantastic tool, I can see it being used to know when you've rehearsed enough to know the presentation well enough to present for real

My filler words here absolutely make sense as it was the first time I'd seen the slides so some more practice would help me become more familiar with the content. The same would go for pitch, once I know the points I want to hit, pitch variation is easier

I'm not convinced that I had the pronunciation of Linux wrong as the example is how I think I pronounce it so it'd be great it if had short snippets from your rehearsal to show you what it thought could be improved

[danielmackay]

I have seen this feature before, but had never tried it. I thought this was quite valuable and provides feedback in many areas of the presentation. Great tool to have in a presenters toolbelt!