speech – Ranjith Venkatesh

I love crafting and making speeches.

I love tools which analyse and give insights into my speeches.

Last week I attended a AI Innovators meetup organized at KI Reply in Munich. One of the sessions was “Human emotions at scale” presented by Stefan Dirnstorfer.

I liked the way he compared the tweets and opinions of Trump and Biden before and after the debate, Rishi and Keir before and after the election results using Paramojis.

“A paramoji is a parametric smiley face that represents facial expressions on continuous scales” – Stefan Dirnstorfer

I was wondering if I could follow the emotional rollcoaster that a speech takes the audience through.

Using ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot and the PHP code snippet from Stefan I wrote a small application which created the above Paramoji Speech Flow.

I like the way in Page 1, you can note that emotionally in every 5 sentences there is happy and sad emotion (deliberately simplifying emotions for discussion)

I like the way in Page 4, you can notice the excitement in the mouth and eye gestures.

How do you analyse and learn from insights from your speeches?

Links:

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Paramoji

Message first or Story first

Photo by S O C I A L . C U T on Unsplash

How do we start putting together a speech?

Message first or Story first?

I very often have a story that happened to me in the past. I feel like I learnt something from that story that I would like to share. I then take it and make it part of my speech and then build the speech around it. I find this approach organic. Sometimes getting a supporting frame to this story is challenging.

Having a message first reminds of me of being called to make an Impromptu speech. I have a phrase or challenge thrown at me and I need to build from there. In this case as I get warmed up with a first few sentences, my mind is chugging away in the background trying to put together stories that happened in my life and try to relate them with the topic. The moment any story matches a bit, I bring it in. During my story narration, I keep looking for a nice to loop back to the message. The advantage of this approach is that the message is known and everything is built on it.

What is your approach when you write your speeches?