Strengthen Communication Skills With the AI Assistant

Matthew Short:

The next cool AI feature that comes along with this package, the analytics tab, and some of you may be familiar with this tab already, even with our essentials package, you have this feedback graph that’s kind of like a visual representation of the commentary feedback that’s been provided on the students video and kind of gives you that visual representation. So I can see here’s comments here are markers. Within there you can kind of see are there any gaps in the video where I haven’t noted any feedback that maybe I want to go back and review. And you’re also able to see some of these AI markers that I’ll get to show you here just shortly. But again, that visual representation of the feedback offered what our AI features or analytics are offering beyond that is in some of these other reports down here, things like filler words, kind of those durable communication, those soft skills that we want to make sure that when we’re communicating we’re communicating effectively that we’re not adding a bunch of different words in there that aren’t helpful, aren’t useful.

Our system is kind of detecting some of those particular practices. And for one filler words here you’ll see in this graphical visual representation, 82 filler words were spoken over the course of this video and represents about 2% of the transcript as a whole. So that’s helpful context, but how am I compared to kind of the general run of the mill person that’s speaking? You’ll also see on some of these analytics, we do have a baseline for, hey, it’s common to have less than 4% of your words when you’re speaking to be filler words. So in this instance, as the student I know, hey, I’m doing pretty good. I’m twice as good as the typical run of the mill person speaking, this is something that gives me helpful context to know, hey, there’s a little bit of room for improvement, but I’m not doing so bad in this sense.

Now if it were 8%, 10%, 20%, maybe that’s something I need to hone in and focus in on pauses. This is always fun, particularly within the teacher education field. Sometimes a deliberate pause is intentional. Sometimes it’s a good thing because it lets your students digest what you’ve shared, formulate responses and then actively participate. We want to make sure we’re giving our students the time they need to do that. So in some disciplines, a deliberate pause may be a good thing and something you want your students to be doing. Sometimes if you’re just delivering a presentation, it may be kind of a sign that did the content as well as you should have known for this presentation in front of your teacher and all your classmates. So this can be kind of context, discipline specific in terms of are these pauses good or are they something we need to work on for the future?

And you’ll see here it’s noting those deliberate pauses. It’s noting how many of those pauses are lengthy in nature. And then again, using that context, that knowledge that you have within that discipline or for that activity, you can determine area for growth or potentially a strength area pacing. How quickly am I speaking? Am I speaking so fast that nobody’s understanding what I’m saying or I’m just oversaturating them with information? Am I speaking way too slowly and it’s just putting you to sleep. You have some analytics to kind of justify or showcase kind of which end of the spectrum or maybe you’re kind of sweet in the middle you’ll see here the number of words per minute that you’re speaking. And then again, just kind of like with that filler words, we have kind of a baseline. You should be comparing yourself to see are you kind of average kind of middle of the road in terms of your speaking cadence?

And last but not least, edging words, those words that kind of take a little bit of authority off of what you’re saying it’s possible. Maybe that could be right. We want to minimize those instances where we’re adding words into our speaking patterns or speeches that would kind of betray that knowledge and expertise that we are trying to convey to our audience or to those that we’re speaking to. So again, just a great way kind of work on those durable skills that regardless of what discipline, what profession you’re going into, these are the type of things that when I’m trying to be an effective communicator, I can kind of hone in and grow and improve in these particular areas.