Title
Automatic characterization of speaking styles in educational videos
Abstract
Recent studies have shown the importance of using online videos along with textual material in educational instruction, especially for better content retention and improved concept understanding. A key question is how to select videos to maximize student engagement, particularly when there are multiple possible videos on the same topic. While there are many aspects that drive student engagement, in this paper we focus on presenter speaking styles in the video. We use crowd-sourcing to explore speaking style dimensions in online educational videos, and identify six broad dimensions: liveliness, speaking rate, pleasantness, clarity, formality and confidence. We then propose techniques based solely on acoustic features for automatically identifying a subset of the dimensions. Finally, we perform video re-ranking experiments to learn how users apply their speaking style preferences to augment textbook material. Our findings also indicate how certain dimensions are correlated with perceptions of general pleasantness of the voice.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ICASSP.2014.6854523
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
computer aided instruction,human computer interaction,speech processing,video signal processing,acoustic features,automatic speaking styles characterization,clarity,concept understanding,confidence,content retention,educational instruction,formality,liveliness,online educational videos,pleasantness,speaking rate,student engagement maximization,textbook material augmentation,textual material,video re-ranking experiments,video selection,liveliness,speaking rate,speaking style
CLARITY,Pattern recognition,Formality,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Mathematics education,Student engagement,Speaking style,Multimedia,Perception,Content retention
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1520-6149
9
0.56
References 
Authors
4
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Soroosh Mariooryad11015.28
Anitha Kannan290.56
Dilek Hakkani-Tür328217.30
Elizabeth Shriberg43057325.64