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I. About VirtualSpeech
I. About VirtualSpeech
Build essential workplace skills with immersive, AI powered, self-paced practice.
VirtualSpeech offers a full suite of 40+ immersive, self-paced learning materials covering different aspects of effective presentations, communications, elevator pitch, business ethics, media scenarios, video-base interviews, story telling and more.
This includes practice scenarios for immediate practice, but also courses and learning paths that combine practice scenarios with articles and real world examples. VirtualSpeech also offers video examples and analysis of different skills in action, reinforcing the learning through observation and visualization of how to effectively perform certain skills.
To use VirtualSpeech in conjunction with your teaching, we recommend you incorporate specific practice scenarios and example videos into your course. Those can either be for class preparation or subsequent individual practice after a specific topic is discussed in class.
ChatGPT-powered avatars in Virtual Speech!
Virtual Speech hs implemented AI avatars powered by ChatGPT, to enable free flowing conversations in VR. This is being used for job interview practice, role-playing difficult conversations, and for question and answer sessions after presentations.
The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to ask and answer follow-up questions, give contextualized feedback, and provide relevant training tips.
Overview of new features and scenarios in VirtualSpeech
Overview of new features and scenarios in VirtualSpeech
Integration of AI into VR is a recent development and continues to push the boundaries of what is possible. The VirtualSpeech app is evolving quickly, incorporating new feature and scenarios every month.
Integration of AI into VR is a recent development and continues to push the boundaries of what is possible. The VirtualSpeech app is evolving quickly, incorporating new feature and scenarios every month.
Updates April 2024
Updates 2023
II. How does VirtualSpeech enhance learning?
II. How does VirtualSpeech enhance learning?
Fully immersive scenarios coupled with instant feedback create real world behavioral changes.
The safety of the virtual world is an ideal training ground for high-stake situations. VR provides a realistic scenario, without the situation actually happening in real life, so that learners are safe to make mistakes and to learn from them.
The cost of making a mistake in the virtual world is nothing compared to the cost of human error in reality. This is especially useful for learners who avoid experience learning because of anxiety. They can develop their skills and increase their confidence in a safe space, before applying what they have learned to real-life situations.
III. How it works
III. How it works
VirtualSpeech can be used for autonomous practice or as part of on-campus facilitated training.
VirtualSpeech offers over 40 environments for learners to practice with engaging exercises, where they will receive instant feedback on their performance.
Depending on the course, learners will either practice in virtual reality or online.
VirtualSpeech does also offer exercises which will help you with your voice modulation, pace and pitch, or how you can calculate your speech length.
VirtualSpeech provides the learner with real- time feedback based on data-driven insights to accelerate learning and identify areas that need improving.
Active learning in realistic scenarios requires learners to interact just like in real life, which leads to long-term knowledge retention and real world behavioral change.
Source: VirtualSpeech Website
IV. Step-by-step: Set-up, explore and use with students
IV. Step-by-step: Set-up, explore and use with students
Step 1: Request educator access and explore VirtualSpeech contents on PC
Step 1: Request educator access and explore VirtualSpeech contents on PC
First, request an educator access to explore all the VirtualSpeech contents. Once your educator access is set-up, you will receive an email from VirtualSpeech to create your user (with your @faculty email and a separate password). Afterwards, you can log in directly on the website.
Click on "Log In"
Log in with the password you created.
This takes you to your dashboard overview with the navigation bar. You can browse Paths, Courses, Practice, and Examples.
We can also support you during content selection and course design, which is how you connect the selected content to your teaching. Just drop us an email to learning.innovation@ie.edu.
Step 2: Try VirtualSpeech with VR headset
Step 2: Try VirtualSpeech with VR headset
First, login to VirtualSpeech on your PC (www.virtualspeech.com)
Go to the "Menu"
Click on "Account"
Click on "VR Codes" to access your code for the VirtualSpeech VR experience.
Second, get into your VR headset (need a loan?) and launch the Virtual Speech app from your Oculus App Library. If the app is not in your library, download it from the Oculus App Store.
Inside the VR app, enter your code to start with your VR practice.
Step 3: Course creation and student enrollment
Step 3: Course creation and student enrollment
To use VirtualSpeech for a specific course you teach, please fill in the Service Desk with the necessary information. Once the service request is received, your course will be created and students will be enrolled for your activity. And we will get in touch to help you with communication, set-up, and student instructions.
Step 4: Your dashboard
Step 4: Your dashboard
In the dashboard, you can monitor learner progress, course modules and practice exercises complete, and more. Depending on your configuration, students can also submit recordings for your review which you can manage through the dashboard.
This demo video shows the process from receiving a Welcome email to accessing the VR training.
You can skip the first 4 steps if you are receiving a VR code from your manager or professor.
0:00 Welcome Email
0:12 Setting a Password
0:25 Logging In
0:36 Accessing VR Codes
1:00 Download VirtualSpeech VR App
1:35 Entering VR
1:45 Entering your VR Code
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