Analyzing speech delivery

• US 9,792,908 B1
• Filed: 10/28/2016
• Issued: 10/17/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2016
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bassemir, Richard T., Hoffman, Beth L., Jimenez, David, Tong, Britney, Young, Yvonne M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chawan, Vijay B
• Application Number:
  US15/337,007
• Time in Patent Office: 354 Days
• Field of Search: 704235, 704270, 704275, 704231, 704239, 704246, 704251, 7042701, 704278, 37926503, 37926506, 37926507, 379 8809, 705 714, 705 738, 370252
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/253 Grammatical analysis; Style critique
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/04 Speaking with audible presentation of the material to be studied G09B5/04
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/02 with visual presentation of the material to be studied, e.g. using film strip
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/51 for comparison or discrimination
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/72 for transmitting results of analysis

Abstract

In an aspect of the present disclosure, a method for analyzing the speech delivery of a user is disclosed including presenting to the user a plurality of speech delivery analysis criteria, receiving from the user a selection of at least one of the speech delivery analysis criterion, receiving, from at least one sensing device, speech data captured by the at least one sensing device during the delivery of a speech by the user, transmitting the speech data and the selected at least one speech delivery analysis criterion to an analysis engine for analysis based on the selected at least one speech delivery analysis criteria, receiving, from the analysis engine an analysis report for the speech data, the analysis report comprising an analysis of the speech data performed by the analysis engine based on the selected at least one criterion, and presenting to the user the analysis report.

Claims

1. A method implemented by at least one hardware processor for analyzing the speech delivery of a user comprising:

presenting to a user, via a graphical user interface on a display of a computing device, a plurality of speech delivery analysis criteria for analyzing the speech delivery of the user;

receiving, from the user via the computing device a selection of at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria;

receiving, from the user via the computing device a text version of a speech prior to delivery of the speech by the user;

transmitting the text version of the speech to an analysis engine for analysis based on the selected at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria prior to delivery of the speech by the user;

receiving, by the computing device, from at least one sensing device, speech data captured by the at least one sensing device during the delivery of the speech by the user;

transmitting the speech data and the selected at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria to the analysis engine for analysis based on the selected at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria, the selected at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria comprising a comparison of the delivery of the speech by the user as captured by the speech data to the text version of the speech received prior to delivery of the speech by the user;

receiving, from the analysis engine an analysis report for the speech data, the analysis report comprising an analysis of the speech data performed by the analysis engine based on the selected at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria; and

presenting, to the user, via the graphical user interface, the analysis report.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising saving the received selection of the at least one speech delivery analysis criteria to a user profile associated with the user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the speech data comprises at least one of audio speech data, visual speech data, and motion speech data.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one sensing device comprises at least one of an audio sensing device, a visual sensing device, and a motion sensing device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the motion sensing device is configured to be affixed to the user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the analysis engine is trained with a corpus of data corresponding to the selected at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving from the analysis engine an analysis report for the text version of the speech, the analysis report for the text version of the speech comprising an analysis of the text version of the speech performed by the analysis engine based on the selected at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria; and

presenting, to the user, via a graphical user interface, the analysis report for the text version of the speech prior to delivery of the speech by the user.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the received selection of at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria comprises a selection to compare the delivery of the speech by the user to a speech of at least one well known orator.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the at least one well known orator is selected by the user.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the computing device is trained using a training corpus of speeches of the at least one well known orator and is configured to identify, based on the comparison of the delivery of the speech by the user to the speech of the at least one well known orator, which speech of the at least one well known orator the user'"'"'s speech matches the most.

11. A system for analyzing the speech delivery of a user comprising:

at least one sensing device configured to capture speech data captured during the delivery of a speech by the user;

a computing device comprising a display and at least one processor configured to;

present to the user, via a graphical user interface on the display, a plurality of speech delivery analysis criteria for analyzing the speech delivery of the user;

receive from the user a selection of at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria;

receive from the user a text version of the speech prior to delivery of the speech by the user;

transmitting the text version of the speech to an analysis engine for analysis based on the selected at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria prior to delivery of the speech by the user;

receive from the at least one sensing device, the speech data captured by the at least one sensing device during the delivery of the speech by the user;

transmit the speech data and the selected at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria to the analysis engine for analysis based on the selected at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria, the selected at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria comprising a comparison of the delivery of the speech by the user as captured by the speech data to the text version of the speech received prior to the delivery of the speech by the user;

receive from the analysis engine an analysis report for the speech data, the analysis report comprising an analysis of the speech data performed by the analysis engine based on the selected at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria; and

present, to the user, via the graphical user interface, the analysis report.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to save the received selection of the at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria to a user profile associated with the user.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the speech data comprises at least one of audio speech data, visual speech data, and motion speech data.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the at least one sensing device comprises at least one of an audio sensing device, a visual sensing device, and a motion sensing device.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the motion sensing device is configured to be affixed to the user.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the analysis engine is trained with a corpus of data corresponding to the selected at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

receive from the analysis engine an analysis report for the text version of the speech, the analysis report for the text version of the speech comprising an analysis of the text version of the speech performed by the analysis engine based on the selected at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria; and

present, to the user, via the graphical user interface, the analysis report for the text version of the speech prior to the delivery of the speech by the user.

18. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions for analyzing the speech delivery of a user that, when executed by at least one processor, configure the at least one processor to:

present to the user, via a graphical user interface on a display of a computing device, a plurality of speech delivery analysis criteria;

receive from the user a selection of at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria for analyzing the speech delivery of the user;

receive from the user a text version of a speech prior to delivery of the speech by the user;

transmitting the text version of the speech to an analysis engine for analysis based on the selected at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria prior to delivery of the speech by the user;

receive from at least one sensing device, speech data captured by the at least one sensing device during the delivery of the speech by the user;

transmit the speech data and the selected at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria to the analysis engine for analysis based on the selected at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria, the selected at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria comprising a comparison of the delivery of the speech by the user as captured by the speech data to the text version of the speech received prior to delivery of the speech by the user;

receive from the analysis engine an analysis report for the speech data, the analysis report comprising an analysis of the speech data performed by the analysis engine based on the selected at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria; and

present, to the user, via the graphical user interface, the analysis report.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 18, wherein the analysis engine is trained with a corpus of data corresponding to the selected at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 18, wherein the instructions further configure the at least one processor to:

receive from the analysis engine an analysis report for the text version of the speech, the analysis report for the text version of the speech comprising an analysis of the text version of the speech performed by the analysis engine based on the selected at least one of the speech delivery analysis criteria; and

present, to the user, via the graphical user interface, the analysis report for the text version of the speech prior to the delivery of the speech by the user.