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"abstract": "In this work we propose a multimodal speech analytics framework for automatically assessing the quality of a public speaker's capabilities. For this purpose, we present the Public Speaking Quality (PuSQ) dataset, a new publicly available data collection that contains speeches from various speakers, along with respective annotations of how are these speeches perceived by the audience in terms of two labels namely: \"expressiveness\" and overall \"enjoyment\" (i.e. if the listener enjoys the speech as a whole). Towards this end, several annotators have been asked to provide their input for each speech recording and interannotator agreement is taken into account in the final ground truth generation. In addition, we present a multimodal classifier that takes into account both audio and text information and predicts the overall recordings' label with regards to its speech quality (in terms of the two aforementioned labels). To this end, we adopt a hierarchical approach according to which we first analyze the speech signal in a segment-basis (50ms of audio and sentences of text) to extract emotions from both text and audio and then aggregate these decisions for the whole recording, while adding some highlevel speaking style characteristics to produce the overall representation that is used by the final classifier.",
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"text": "Public speaking (also called oratory or oration) is the act of giving speech face to face to live audience. However, due to the evolution of public speaking, it is lately viewed as any form of speaking (formally and informally) between an audience and the speaker. Traditionally, public speaking was considered to be a part of the art of persuasion. The act can accomplish particular purposes including information, persuasion, and entertainment. Ad-ditionally, differing methods, structures, and rules can be utilized according to the speaking situation.",
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"text": "Currently, technology continues to transform the art of public speaking through newly available techniques such as videoconferencing, multimedia presentations, and other nontraditional forms. Knowing when speech is most effective and how it is done properly are key to understanding the importance of it.",
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"text": "While most current methods for evaluating speech performance attend to both verbal and nonverbal aspects, almost all existing assessments in practice require human rating (Ward, 2013; Schreiber et al., 2012b; Carlson and Smith-Howell, 1995) . Due to the obvious need to use our speech in our daily lives, its evaluation and its improvement is also very important. This evaluation becomes easier and faster if it is performed by an automated process that mostly uses machine learning methodologies.",
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"text": "Speech is everywhere and the way we speak is just as important as what we say. Therefore, multimodal speech analytics (using text and audio) is an important process that can be applied not only to assess public speakers speech quality, but also in other speech-related fields of application such as the identification of learning disabilities related to speech (dyslexia, autism), the analytics of call center data and the speech-based assessment of psychological and psychiatric conditions. The proposed pipeline for assessing the public speech quality can be adopted in such applications, as soon as respective ground truth have been made available for training the supervised models.",
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"text": "The related works in assessing public speakers' skills is very limited and usually focuses in two specific tasks, namely learning analytics and persuasive analysis. In particular, focuses on the design of a multimodal automated assessment framework for public speaking skills an-alytics, which is based on the public speaking competence rubric (PSCR) (Schreiber et al., 2012a) for scoring and uses both audiovisual and textual features. With regards to the persuasiveness prediction application domain, a widely used dataset, named Persuasive Opinion Multimedia (POM) (Park et al., 2014) has been created, which contain multiple communication modalities (audio, text and visual) . A deep learning approach for this task that is evaluated on POM is presented by (Nojavanasghari et al., 2016) , where the authors design a deep multimodal fusion architecture, that has the ability to combine signals from the visual, acoustic, and text modalities effectively.",
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"text": "However, the aforementioned methodologies do not address the task of assessing the public speakers' skills in a generalized manner. This paper proposes an ML framework for classifying long speech recordings in terms of: (a) overall speech \"expressiveness\", as perceived by the audience and (b) perceived \"enjoyment\", i.e., how much the listeners enjoyed each speech recording. Towards this end, we demonstrate a Python open-source library that utilizes segment-level (size of 20ms to 50ms) audio and text classifiers related to emotional and speaking style attributes. The final recording-level decision is extracted by a long-term classifier that is based on feature aggregates of the segment-level decisions. Apart from the open-source library, we present an openly available dataset of real-world recordings, annotated in terms of perceived expressiveness and enjoyment. Extensive experimental results prove that the proposed ML framework can discriminate between positive and negative speech samples, despite the simplicity of the baseline segment-level classifiers.",
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"text": "The paper is organized as follows: Section 2 shows the conceptual diagram of the proposed methodology, Section 3 presents the segment-level audio and text classifiers related to emotional attributes, Section 4 introduces the aggregation of class posteriors among with some high-level features that are calculated across the entire recording, Section 5 refers to the newly constructed Public Speaking Quality (PuSQ) dataset, Section 6 is responsible for the reporting of the implemented experiments and Section 7 sets out the final conclusions.",
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"text": "The system architecture developed in the context of speech quality assessment is divided into two parts: segment-level analysis and recording-level analysis. In the first, we break the information (audio or text) into temporal segments and use segment-classifiers related to emotional content. In the second, we aggregate the previously produced class posteriors and combine with high-level features that characterize the overall speaking style. This rationale is followed for both textual and audio modalities and the final decisions can either be used independently or combined in the final recording-level classifiers. The conceptual diagram of the proposed system architecture is shown in Figure 1 . The audio recording is split into segments and for each segment audio feature extraction is performed and segment classifiers are applied to produce a series of emotion-specific classification decisions, which are then aggregated for the whole recording's classification in terms of overall speech quality. The goal of this section is to describe this segmentlevel process.",
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"text": "For each 3s segment, a short-term window process is followed, i.e. the segment is further split into short-term windows (frames) of 50 ms long with a step of 50 ms (no overlapping). For each short-term window, a series of hand-crafted audio features is extracted, that have been widely used in speech classification tasks. These low-level audio features are: Zero-crossing rate, Energy, Energy entropy, Spectral centroid, Spectral spread, Spectral Entropy, Spectral Flux, Spectral Rolloff, the first 13 MFCCs , the Chroma Vector (12-dimensional) and Chroma Standard Deviation. All these features summing up to 34 in total. We further add the deltas of these features, i.e. the difference between each feature in the current short-term window and the value it had in the immediately preceding shortterm window. So we end up with 34 such derivatives (deltas), so 68 features in total for each frame.",
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"text": "The categorical attributes consist of some basic classes of emotions. According to Ortony and Turner (1990) , basic emotions are often the primitive building blocks of other non-essential emotions, which are considered variations, or mixtures of basic emotions. In Ekman (1992) six basic emotions are suggested, based on the analysis of facial expressions (anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness and surprise). We choose to use the 4 basic emotions: anger, sadness, neutral and happiness, as provided by the, widely used in the literature (Koromilas and Giannakopoulos, 2021) , processed version of the IEMOCAP dataset.",
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