Are You TED Talk Material? Comparing Prosody in Professors and TED Speakers
| Title | Are You TED Talk Material? Comparing Prosody in Professors and TED Speakers |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2015 |
| Authors | Tsai, T.. J. |
| Other Numbers | 3816 |
| Abstract | TED talks are the pinnacle of public speaking. They combinecompelling content with flawless delivery, and their popularityis attested by the millions of views they attract. In this work, wecompare the prosodic voice characteristics of TED speakers anduniversity professors. Our aim is to identify the characteristicsthat separate TED speakers from other public speakers. Basedon a simple set of features derived from pitch and energy, wetrain a discriminative classifier to predict whether a 5 minuteaudio sample is from a TED talk or a university lecture. Weare able to achieve |
| URL | http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/speech/tedmaterial15.pdf |
| Bibliographic Notes | Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2015), Dresden, Germany |
| Abbreviated Authors | TJ Tsai |
| ICSI Research Group | Speech |
| ICSI Publication Type | Article in conference proceedings |