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1. Ovation This VR software is designed to help you combat your nerves. Don a headset to enter a virtual audience-packed room where you can give your presentation a dry run. Ovation will then provide feedback on aspects ranging from your use of filler words to the quality of your eye contact.
ovationvr.com
2. Orai
The AI in this communication coach app uses data corralled from sources including TED talks and presidential addresses. Speak into your smartphone and its analytics can help you achieve the optimum tempo of 140 words per minute and even master the art of leaving a long pause.
oraiapp.com
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Walls.io Give your talk the live-streaming razzmatazz of Jeremy Vine on election night with these “social walls”. Simply create a hashtag and your audience’s social media posts will start appearing on a screen behind you. To avoid any awkwardness, these can be vetted for you before they’re allowed up.
walls.io
4. Adobe Spark Video If your bullet-pointed slides regularly prompt yawns, this free software could be the solution. It enables you to create attention-grabbing videos that could be put on your website or YouTube afterwards. Best of all, you don’t need any design expertise to use it.
spark.adobe.com
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The annual TED conference (15-19 April) features some of the world’s most inspirational speakers. Here’s a selection of tech that could help take your own oratory to the next level Words Christian Koch
6. Poll Everywhere
An audience of phone-fiddlers is the bugbear of many a public speaker. Rather than banning devices, consider this web- based tool, which enables presenters to engage with the smartphone crowd by setting them interactive polls and quizzes.
polleverywhere.com
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7. Logitech Spotlight Dynamism is key to eff ective presentations – few audiences enjoy those sessions where a motionless orator narrates a slideshow. Logitech’s remote presentation tool enables you to roam any room confidently, controlling your visuals from up to 30m away.
logitech.com
8. Smart Kapp This interactive whiteboard app promises to render the question “can everyone see at the back?” obsolete. Simply invite your attendees – whether they’re in the same room or another time zone – and your scribblings will appear on their smartphones in real time.
smartkapp.com
9. Sony Xperia Touch Elevating that staple of 20th-century classrooms – the overhead projector – to swish new levels, this tech can turn any surface into an interactive touchscreen. The projector is about the size of the larger iPad Pro, making it highly portable to boot.
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