Free online VR tool for speakers to practise in front of thousands of virtual spectators helps with anxiety. Percentage of students who said they were anxious public speakers fell from 65% before experiment to 20%, while percentage who described themselves as confident rose from 31% to 79%.
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the Guardian
Free online virtual reality tool helps people tackle public speaking nerves
Cambridge scientist behind VR platform says it could help those put off by high cost of speech anxiety treatment
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New findings indicate that speakers who use “ums,” “ahs,” and corrections are consistently rated as less knowledgeable than those who speak fluently. But the presence of hand gestures, regardless of their type or frequency, does not appear to mitigate this negative perception. 🤔💬✋
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PsyPost
Confident gestures fail to mask the uncertainty signaled by speech disfluencies
New research suggests speech fluency is the primary factor listeners use to judge a speaker's knowledge. The study finds that while gestures aid communication, they cannot compensate for the negative perception caused by verbal stumbles.
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A pilot program trained four teachers to breathe, pace and articulate differently, then found evidence their speech had grown more expressive by a detailed listening-based measure.
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Perceptual Analysis of Teachers’ Speech Expressiveness After Speech-Language Intervention
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