{"id":2092,"date":"2023-08-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/blog\/2023\/08\/10\/how-educators-can-use-speaker-coach-to-develop-confident-public-speakers\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T14:22:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T21:22:17","slug":"how-educators-can-use-speaker-coach-to-develop-confident-public-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/blog\/2023\/08\/how-educators-can-use-speaker-coach-to-develop-confident-public-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"How educators can use Speaker Coach to develop confident public speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Microsoft Learning Accelerators<\/a> are a suite of tools that help students catch up, keep up, and get ahead by building foundational and future-ready skills. Each Learning Accelerator is seamlessly integrated into products that educators and students know and love like Microsoft Teams<\/a>, OneNote, PowerPoint, Word, and more. Speaker Coach<\/a>, a free, ready-to-use Learning Accelerator, helps students develop good public speaking practices when presenting ideas to a group\u2014an essential skill when sharing a class report, reviewing financials in the workplace, or communicating ideas from a podium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many students find public speaking intimidating. Speaker Coach is a virtual assistant that helps students become better, more confident public speakers by providing insights that are both private and tailored to their abilities. Available in PowerPoint and Clipchamp<\/a>, Speaker Coach analyzes how students communicate using built-in technology that listens for ways to improve things like pace, pitch, filler words, and pronunciation. Its robust capabilities replicate feedback from an expert public speaking trainer without the need to have another person listen or critique. This ensures a non-threatening environment for even the most nervous student to rehearse their public speaking over and over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Explore how your students can use Speaker Coach in PowerPoint<\/a> to reduce anxiety and become poised, confident speakers during their next presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Speaker Coach is available whenever students might want to practice presenting. All that\u2019s required is access to PowerPoint and an updated browser with Internet connection. Because Speaker Coach uses the microphone and camera to capture real-time insights, soft-spoken students might benefit from a headset or external microphone while rehearsing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To get started, open PowerPoint<\/a> and sign in with a Microsoft account. Speaker Coach is available in the PowerPoint desktop app and PowerPoint for the web on Windows, Mac, and iOS. Speaker Coach currently understands English and Spanish language speakers\u2014just be sure the Office user interface<\/a> is set to the corresponding language for it to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOpen Speaker Coach in PowerPoint<\/h2>\n\n\n\n