When I was done, a feedback page popped up immediately. So I hit the record button and enthused about my favorite ramen spot for the suggested 60 seconds. I chose “Your Favorite Things,” which suggested I talk about my favorite food, restaurant or place to go on a Friday night. The app offers several prompts to get you started. Orai, which is free, was launched in March after several months of beta testing. “A lot of them said it was like going to the gym it doesn’t happen in one day.” None “We talked to a lot of speech coaches and trainers, and good public speakers, and asked about their journeys-how did they grow to become good public speakers,” Gupta says. The app is built as a training device, something to be used regularly, over time, for incremental improvements. Then, the app presents users with feedback and tips to improve. “Some speakers with great content fail to create that impact in their audience because the speaker didn’t have the right energy level to engage,” Gupta says. Then there’s energy, which has to do with vocal variation, the changes in pitch or volume that make speeches sound interesting. First, it looks for the overuse of “filler words”-the "ums," "uhs," and "likes." There’s pacing – how fast you’re talking. Built in consultation with linguists, neuroscientists and public speaking experts, it analyzes users’ speech for three critical factors. So the two put their skillset together and built Orai, an app for improving public speaking. They found the group so helpful they began to wonder if they could create a technology that could offer similar teachings to everyone, everywhere.
The two joined Toastmasters, a nonprofit club that helps members with communication and public speaking. “If I could communicate more effectively, I could make so much more of a difference,” he recalls thinking. At an internship, he hesitated to speak up with ideas because he felt he wasn’t articulate enough.
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Dhamani often felt uncomfortable speaking in public in general, while Gupta had trouble with professional communication. It was this last fact that made both of them somewhat uneasy with public speaking. And they both spoke English as a second or third language – Gupta grew up speaking Hindi in India, while Dhamani grew up speaking Urdu and Swahili in Tanzania.
They both attended many of the same campus events, especially networking ones. They were both studying STEM-Gupta in computer science, Dhamani in mechanical engineering. When Paritosh Gupta and Danish Dhamani met, as freshmen dormmates at Drexel University in Philadelphia, they had a lot in common.
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