PRESENTATION REHEARSAL

• US 20150132735A1
• Filed: 11/12/2013
• Published: 05/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Edge, Darren Keith, Trinh, Ha Thu
• Application Number:
  US14/077,674
• Publication Number:
  US 20150132735A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/308
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/02 with visual presentation of the material to be studied, e.g. using film strip
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/06 with both visual and audible presentation of the material to be studied
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/067 Combinations of audio and projected visual presentation, e.g. film, slides

Abstract

Some implementations may include a computing device to generate a presentation and enable rehearsing delivery of the presentation. The presentation may include multiple slides, with each slide having one or more visual elements, such as text or graphics. One or more notes sections may be created. Each of the one or notes sections may correspond to a visual element of the one or more visual elements. Time targets associated with each of the one or more visual elements may be received. During rehearsal, visual elements may be highlighted based on the time targets and/or a position of the visual elements on a slide may be identified based on the time targets.

Claims

1. A method performed by one or more processors executing instructions to perform acts comprising:

receiving presentation input to create a presentation comprised of multiple slides, each slide having one or more visual elements;

creating one or more notes sections, each of the one or more notes sections corresponding to one of the one or more visual elements; and

receiving time targets associated with each of the one or more visual elements.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, the acts further comprising:

receiving order input identifying a speaking order for the one or more visual elements in a slide of the multiple slides; and

arranging an order of the one or more visual elements and the corresponding one or more notes sections in the slide based on the speaking order.

3. The method as recited in claim 2, before receiving the order input the acts further comprising:

overlaying a visual flow path of the one or more visual elements on the slide;

receiving flow path input to rearrange an order of one or more nodes in the flow path, the one or more nodes corresponding to the one or more visual elements;

rearranging the order of the one or more nodes in the flow path based on the flow path input.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, the acts further comprising:

determining a number of words in each of the one or more notes sections; and

in response to determining that a particular notes section of the one or more notes sections includes one or more words;

determining a frequency with which each word of the one or more words occurs in the particular notes section; and

determining a part of speech associated with each word of the one or more words.

5. The method as recited in claim 4, the acts further comprising:

compressing the one or words based at least partly on;

the frequency with which each word of the one or more words occurs in the particular notes section; and

the part of speech associated with each word of the one or more words.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, the acts further comprising:

entering a rehearsal mode;

highlighting a visual element of the corresponding notes section; and

after a predetermined period of time has elapsed, highlighting a next visual element and removing highlighting of the visual element, the predetermined period of time comprising one of the time targets.

7. A computing device comprising:

one or more processors;

one or more computer-readable storage media storing instructions executable by the one or more processors to perform acts comprising;

creating a presentation comprised of multiple slides, each slide of the multiple slides having one or more visual elements;

creating a notes section for at least one visual element of the one or more visual elements; and

determining a period of time corresponding to each of the one or more visual elements, the period of time identifying a time to display a corresponding visual element before displaying a next visual element of the one or more visual elements.

8. The computing device as recited in claim 7, the acts further comprising:

identifying, on a slide of the multiple slides, a first location of a first visual element of the one or more visual elements; and

after the period of time corresponding to the first visual has elapsed, identifying a second location of a second visual element on the slide to cue recall of the second visual element and the corresponding notes section.

9. The computing device as recited in claim 8, wherein, during the rehearsal of the delivery of the presentation, the acts further comprise:

receiving audio data from a microphone;

identifying speech data and non-speech data in the audio data; and

discarding the non-speech data.

10. The computing device as recited in claim 9, the acts further comprising:

determining a length of time associated with the speech data; and

updating one or more timing counters associated with the rehearsal of the delivery of the presentation based on the length of time associated with the speech data.

11. The computing device as recited in claim 10, wherein the one of more timing counters comprise one or more of:

a presentation timing counter associated with the rehearsal of the delivery of the presentation,

a visual element timing counter associated with delivery of a particular visual element of the one or more visual elements and the corresponding notes section; and

a slide timing counter associated with delivery of a particular slide of the multiple slides.

12. The computing device as recited in claim 7, the acts further comprising:

compressing the notes sections for the at least one visual element before a subsequent rehearsal based at least partly on;

a frequency of occurrence of words in the notes section corresponding to each visual element, and

a part of speech associated with each of the words.

13. One of more computer-readable storage media including instructions that are executable by one or more processors to perform acts comprising:

creating a presentation comprised of multiple slides, each slide having one or more visual elements, each visual element of the one or more visual elements comprising at least one of text or a graphical image;

creating a notes section corresponding to each of the one or more visual elements, the notes section including details associated with each of the one or more visual elements;

determining one or more periods of time, each of the one or more periods of time corresponding to each of the one or more visual elements; and

entering a rehearsal mode in which portions of the presentation are displayed in turn based on the one or more periods of times; and

displaying a current slide of the multiple slides.

14. The one of more computer-readable storage media as recited in claim 13, the acts further comprising:

highlighting a first visual element of the current slide corresponding to a first notes section;

recording first audio data that is received in response to highlighting the first visual element;

identifying first speech data from the first audio data; and

adding the first speech data to accumulated speech data that is associated with the presentation.

15. The one of more computer-readable storage media as recited in claim 14, the acts further comprising:

highlighting a second visual element of the current slide;

recording second audio data that is created in response to highlighting the second visual element;

identifying second speech data from the second audio data; and

adding the second speech data to the accumulated speech data.

16. The one of more computer-readable storage media as recited in claim 15, wherein, before highlighting the first visual element of the current slide, the acts further comprise:

removing a portion of words included in the corresponding first notes section, the portion removed based on a frequency of each of the words in the first notes section and a part of speech of each of the words in the first notes section.

17. The one of more computer-readable storage media as recited in claim 13, the acts further comprising:

identifying a first position of a first visual element of the current slide;

recording first audio data that is received in response to identifying the first portions of the first visual element;

identifying first speech data included in the first audio data; and

adding the first speech data to accumulated speech data that is associated with the presentation.

18. The one of more computer-readable storage media as recited in claim 17, the acts further comprising:

identifying a second position of a second visual element of the current slide;

recording second audio data associated with the second visual element;

identifying second speech data included in the second audio data; and

adding the second speech data to the accumulated speech data.

19. The one of more computer-readable storage media as recited in claim 17, the acts further comprising:

determining a first time associated with the first speech data; and

updating at least one of;

a visual element timing counter associated with delivering the first visual element and the corresponding notes section; and

a slide timing counter associated with a time to deliver the current slide.

20. The one of more computer-readable storage media as recited in claim 17, the acts further comprising:

determining a cumulative time associated with the accumulated speech data; and

updating a presentation timing counter associated with a time to deliver the presentation based on the cumulative time.