SpeakInVR - MeetingRoom

In the context of her PhD thesis, Ms. Etienne has for objective to create a smart learning environment. Public speaking is one of the most challenging tasks in many fields. Candidates will be able to train their public speaking skills in different contexts: a future teacher in front of students, a lawyer during a pleading session, a manager before a meeting in front of customers or stakeholders... With the help of managers, psychologists and speech therapists, a semi- or fully-automatic custom feedback will be delivered. Traditional as well as artificial intelligence tools are being developed to instantly give a feedback to the candidate. The environment is realistic. The virtual audience will react automatically to the orator's speech. Our research will first analyse what are the best attitudes for the audience (and their impact on the speaker) as well as the level of realism to attain in order to strengthen the sentiment of presence.