Multimodal Neural Network for Real-Time Public Speaking Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current technologies lack effective guidance for public speaking, as they fail to provide real-time feedback and personalized suggestions to improve a speaker's performance during a speech, considering both speaker and audience data.

Innovation Solution

A system utilizing multimodal deep neural networks to analyze speaker and audience data, separating the data into various modalities, and generating performance classifications to provide guidance on improving speech delivery, including adjustments in posture, intonation, and content based on real-time feedback.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If current technologies are used for public speaking analysis, then the system is simple, but real-time feedback and personalized suggestions cannot be provided

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereal-time feedback capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments speaker data into multiple modalities (audio, video, text) and processes each modality separately through dedicated neural network branches. This segmentation enables comprehensive real-time analysis while maintaining manageable system complexity by dividing the overall task into independent processing modules that can be executed in parallel.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The multimodal neural network acts as an intermediary between raw speaker data and actionable feedback. The network integrates multiple data sources (audio features, video features, text features) and transforms them into coherent performance classifications and personalized suggestions, bridging the gap between complex input data and user-friendly real-time feedback.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If comprehensive speaker and audience data analysis is performed, then personalized guidance is improved, but processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveperformance classification accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary processing of speaker data by extracting features from audio, video, and text inputs before main analysis. This preliminary action prepares data in advance, enabling faster and more accurate real-time performance classification without increasing overall processing time during speech delivery.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The neural network processes speaker and audience data continuously throughout the speech, providing uninterrupted real-time feedback. This continuous processing ensures that personalized guidance is always available without requiring batch processing or interruptions, maintaining both accuracy and timeliness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple speaker modalities are analyzed, then performance classification is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemultimodal analysis capabilityVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system divides speaker data into distinct modalities (audio, video, text) with dedicated processing branches for each. This segmentation allows the system to handle multiple data types simultaneously while keeping each processing module relatively simple and manageable, avoiding the complexity of trying to process all modalities in a single monolithic structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The neural network employs a universal architecture that handles multiple modalities through a common processing framework. Different input types (audio, video, text) are processed through specialized branches that converge into shared layers, enabling the system to adapt to various speech scenarios without requiring separate systems for each modality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11955026B2Multimodal neural network for public speaking guidance
Publication Date: 2024.04.09 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

A method, computer program product, and computer system for public speaking guidance is provided. A processor retrieves speaker data regarding a speech made by a user. A processor separates the speaker data into one or more speaker modalities. A processor extracts one or more speaker features from the speaker data for the one or more speaker modalities. A processor generates a performance classification based on the one or more speaker features. A processor sends to the user guidance regarding the speech based on the performance classification.