Everyone seems to be talking about artificial intelligence these days. But how can it help public speakers like you?

Below are three main ways AI can help public speakers:

Content Creation and Enhancement

AI tools can assist speakers in creating and refining their speech content.

AI can help draft your presentations by suggesting structure, phrases, and key points. It can also edit and improve the content’s readability, tone, and emotional impact.

Think of AI as your grade school English grammar teacher only in reverse. Instead of the teacher grading your paper, AI gives you a paper with good structure, phrases, and key points.

AI can analyze your presentations for clarity, conciseness, and style consistency, making suggestions for improvement to ensure the message is clear and engaging.

Creating and maintaining clarity, conciseness, and style consistency are challenging tasks for a human. AI takes advantage of what it has learned from studying millions of instances of prose on the Internet. Is AI perfect? No. That is where your human element comes in. You still need to check what AI provides to you.

AI can help tailor your content to specific audiences by incorporating relevant data and insights, ensuring the speech resonates with the audience’s interests and preferences.

The real power of AI comes in iterating the words it gives you to discover the exact meaning you want your audience to experience. In other words, keep feeding back into the AI tool the words it uses.

So, AI can help you in creating and enhancing your presentation content.

It can also help you practice your presentation and supply performance feedback.

Practice and Performance Feedback

AI provides valuable tools for practicing and refining speech delivery.

AI can simulate a live audience through virtual reality, helping you practice in a realistic setting. With some sophisticated electronics, it can provide feedback on eye contact, body language, and audience engagement.

This is done through virtual reality. You have a virtual audience that can respond to you and give you a live audience experience.

AI can also analyze recorded practice sessions to provide detailed feedback on various aspects of delivery, such as pace, pitch, volume, and use of filler words.

During practice, AI can offer real-time suggestions and corrections, helping you adjust your performance on the spot to improve effectiveness.

AI can provide you with real-time verbal feedback through speakers or headphones. If you are speaking too fast, the AI might say, “Slow down,” or if you are not using enough hand gestures, it might suggest, “Use more gestures.”

During your practice session, AI systems can display visual alerts on a screen or monitor. For example, if you are not maintaining enough eye contact, a notification might appear suggesting, “Look at the audience more.” These alerts can cover various aspects, such as eye contact, body language, and speech pace.

So, AI can help you to create and enhance your presentation content and practice your presentation. It can also supply performance feedback.

It can also aid you in audience engagement and interaction

Audience Engagement and Interaction

AI enhances how speakers interact with and engage their audiences.

It can integrate interactive features such as live polls, Q&A sessions, and audience feedback tools, making your presentations more dynamic and engaging.

These interactive features help you engage your audience. An engaged audience is an interested audience – never a bad thing.

With sophisticated electronic equipment, AI can monitor your audience’s reactions in real time providing insights into their engagement and emotional responses allowing you to adjust their delivery accordingly.

This is probably more than you can afford or want, but it is essential to know this AI feature is available.

AI can generate real-time transcriptions and subtitles, making your presentations more accessible to a broader audience, including those with hearing impairments or non-native language speakers.

This handy AI feature means you can repurpose what you say in your presentations for other speaking business products or services.

By focusing on these areas, AI helps public speakers improve their content quality, delivery effectiveness, and audience connection, leading to more impactful and memorable speeches.

As the television ad of many decades ago said, “Try it. You’ll like it!”

Call to Action

Use AI to

• Create ideas for your online content

• Provide you feedback to enhance your delivery

• Increase your audience engagement and interaction

Frank DiBartolomeo is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and award-winning speaker, presentation and interview skills coach, and Professional Member of the National Speakers Association. He was awarded Toastmasters International’s highest individual award, Distinguished Toastmaster because of his outstanding work in public speaking and leadership.

Frank formed DiBartolomeo Consulting International (DCI), LLC (www.speakleadandsucceed.com) in 2007. The mission of DCI is to help technical professionals to inspire, motivate, and influence their colleagues and other technical professionals by improving their presentation skills, communication, and personal presence. Reach Frank at frank@speakleadandsucceed.com and (703) 509-4424.

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