Can computer technology help you with body language and public speaking? Two men think so. Because at a Disrupt SF hackathon event, these men took part by introducing Vocalytics.
Vocalytics critiques your body language while studying videos of your performance. This system also looks at hands, eyes, facial movements, and posture. It even studies movements you’re not even aware of. The two men to thank for introducing Vocalytics are?Danish Dhamani and Paritosh Gupta. They used AI to build it. Also, they use a 2D map of a skeleton on any video. Furthermore, they use Open CV, Open Pose, and Microsoft Pose Data Set.
So after all this, they study normal pose, gestures and power pose. They even asked the public to send them videos of public speaking. They offered to send feedback using Vocalytics. Keep in mind they don’t critique your speech or your words, but they do watch your body language. However, there are others who do watch the words you speak. That’s where Speechcoach.ai comes in. In fact, the men that are introducing Vocalytics also introduce Orai, a speech coach app. That’s already at the Apple Store. Sorry, but I don’t know if Vocalytics is available yet.
However, there is good and bad potential to this. This really can help you in your public speaking. Sometimes, our body language may send bad messages and we don’t even know it. And most of us have to speak in public sometime. So Vocalytics can help prevent those awkward moments before they arise, whether it’s in front of a job or class, or trying to impress that first date or job interview. But if you’ve followed me for a while, you know I look at more sinister motives. What if somebody uses this to study somebody’s body language 24/7, just to study your personality for spying purposes? And what if people use this to disrupt people’s lives? To disrupt somebody’s privacy is never a good thing. How will people use Vocalytics?