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Microsoft PowerPoint now has a Presenter Coach to let you rehearse your presentations before going to the audience. This coach gives you a detailed report telling you how well you did and suggesting areas for improvement. Here's how to use it.

Consider the Presenter Coach in PowerPoint as a trusted friend who listens to you practice performing  your presentations . This coach reviews your entire presentation and creates a report detailing your performance.

For example, it will grade you on how fast you speak and how much you use filler words like "um" and "ah." It will also inform you of words you might want to avoid and encourage you not to simply read the words on your slides aloud.

Basically, if you need a second opinion on your presenting style, this is a great way to get it.

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To use the Presenter Coach in PowerPoint, you must have:

• a Microsoft account or a Microsoft 365 work or school account
• a working internet connection
• a microphone (so that PowerPoint can listen to what you're saying)

Also, the Presenter Coach only works if you use the English language in PowerPoint. Other languages are not yet supported as of April 2021.

PowerPoint's Presenter Coach works for any presentation. You can use it with your commercial, educational, and even family presentations.

To start using this feature, open your presentation with PowerPoint.

In the PowerPoint window, click the "Slide Show" tab on the ribbon at the top of the window.

If you don't see the Slide Show tab, you're probably in Slide Master View. Close this view by selecting "Slide Master" at the top and then clicking "Close Master View."

In the Slide Show tab, click "Rehearse with Coach" to open PowerPoint's Presenter Coach.

Your presentation will open in fullscreen mode. To activate the Presenter Coach, click "Start Rehearsing" in the bottom-right corner of your window. Optionally, enable "Show real-time feedback" if you want the coach to give you tips while you're still presenting.

Now, begin your presentation like you normally would. If you enabled the real-time feedback option, you'll see some tips appear in the bottom-right corner of your window.

Press "Esc" when you're done presenting to exit fullscreen mode. PowerPoint will now open your rehearsal report.

It's important to read and analyze the Presenter Coach's report properly. This will help you find areas for improvement and see whether you're doing well.

The report will vanish as soon as you close the report window. To save the report, take a screenshot of it.

Here's what each section in the report tells you about your presentation:

• Summary : Summary tells you the amount of time you spent practicing your presentation. It also shows the number of slides you rehearsed.
• Fillers : In the Fillers section, you'll see the filler words (umm, ah) that you used during your presentation. Using these filler words makes you sound less confident, and you should try to avoid using them.
• Sensitive Phrases : Sensitive Phrases highlights culturally sensitive phrases that you used in your presentation, which you might want to avoid. It considers the following areas sensitive: disability, age, gender, race, sexual orientation, mental health, geopolitical topics, and profanity.
• Pace : The Pace section tells you the pace of your presentation. If you were too fast or too slow, you'll find that information here.
• Originality : Microsoft suggests that you avoid reading out the text written in your presentation slides, as this makes your presentation boring. Instead, you should use original content in your speech. The Originality section informs you if you only read the text from your slides.

Now that you know where you need to improve, click the "Rehearse Again" button at the top of the report to re-present your presentation. When you're done, PowerPoint will make another report detailing your new presentation performance.

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How to Use PowerPoint Speaker Coach to Improve Your Presentation Skills

Want to rehearse that important presentation on your own? Turn to PowerPoint's Speaker Coach to sharpen your skills.

Want to improve your body language and speaking when making online presentations? You can use PowerPoint Speaker Coach to gain instant feedback and build confidence.

Microsoft PowerPoint includes a powerful tool called Speaker Coach. It is a rebranded and enhanced version of Presentation Coach, initially added to PowerPoint in 2019.

With remote and hybrid working environments now familiar, presenting successfully to diverse online audiences using only slides, a webcam, and a mic is a more valuable skill than ever. In this article, you will learn about Speaker Coach and how it can help you.

What Is PowerPoint Speaker Coach?

You'll find Speaker Coach under the Slide Show tab in PowerPoint on Windows, macOS, and on the web as part of your Microsoft 365 subscription. Speaker Coach can offer real-time feedback on your body language (web version only) and speech as you rehearse a presentation while speaking into your mic and camera.

When finished, a Rehearsal Report shows your overall strengths and weaknesses. You can use the information to improve your presentation skills .

The tool offers many advantages over traditional methods of rehearsing a presentation. It helps you practice independently instead of depending on colleagues for feedback.

Speaker Coach also leverages AI to point out mistakes that alienate an audience. These nuances can be missed by people that work closely with you. The tool can also be helpful outside of professional situations. For example, planning on giving a speech at a wedding, commencement, award ceremony, or commemoration? Speaker Coach can also help you rehearse for these events, whether online or in-person.

Microsoft adopts a privacy-focused approach with Speaker Coach and does not save the videos or audio of you rehearsing.

Key Features of PowerPoint Speaker Coach

Powerpoint Speaker Coach can make you a more dynamic presenter.

Improved Body Language

Body language is still a meaningful way to connect with an audience, even if only the top half of you is visible. The web-based version of Speaker Coach can assess your body language by using your webcam and offers tips as you present.

For example, Speaker Coach pops up a warning if you are too far back from the camera or too close. Additionally, notifications appear if you obstruct your face with your hand or don't make eye contact with the audience.

Improved Speaking

Speaker Coach includes many more features for improving your verbal presentation skills.

• Pace makes sure that you are not speaking too quickly for the audience to understand your message.
• Pitch helps you adjust your volume: a monotone presentation will simply put people to sleep – not what you want!
• Originality identifies the slides you read too extensively. This sounds unnatural and can make a good presentation go bad.
• Filler words such as "um" and "you know" are identified as these can undermine the audience's confidence in your information.

Other features include scanning for repetitive language and encouraging variation in word choice with synonyms for overused words. Inclusiveness warns if you are alienating audience members by using culturally insensitive language or profanity.

The web-based version of Speaker Coach can even tell when you may have mispronounced a word. It will display the correct way to pronounce the word and offer you the ability to practice pronouncing it. Microsoft has said Speaker Coach is optimized for General American English and is improving the pronunciation feature based on user feedback, a tacit acknowledgment that accents vary.

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PowerPoint Speaker Coach Makes Suggestions for Improvement

The killer feature of Speaker Coach isn't just that it grades your presentation skills. It also gives specific suggestions for how you can improve.

Feedback from Speaker Coach includes a Learn More link. This Microsoft Support page offers information on the criteria Speaker Coach uses to assess your presentation and recommendations for making a mediocre presentation stellar.

While some of these might be obvious (like, don't swear) Speaker Coach also points out more subtle mistakes that can shape how your message is received. The support page explains that academic research suggests that audiences best understand presenters who speak at a rate of about 100 to 165 words per minute. Speaker Coach is assessing your performance relative to that metric. However, it also leaves space to adapt to your speaking style over time.

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Note: Microsoft has said Speaker Coach will be added to Teams in early 2022 to help you communicate better during meetings.

How to Use PowerPoint Speaker Coach for Body Language Feedback

Non-verbal communication is an art that can make or break your presentation. Use the feedback from PowerPoint Speaker Coach to perfect the nuances.

• Open PowerPoint on the Web and go to Slide Show > Rehearse with Coach > Enable Show Body Language Feedback .
• A window will open at the bottom right. Click Start Rehearsing . Leave show real-time feedback enabled.
• Rehearse your presentation.

How to Use PowerPoint Speaker Coach on Windows and macOS

Speaker Coach works the same on both Windows and macOS, though do note that body language and pronunciation feedback are unavailable:

• Open a PowerPoint Presentation and go to Slide Show > Rehearse with Coach .
• A window will open at the bottom right of your screen. Click Start Rehearsing .
• Rehearse your presentation

Feel Empowered by PowerPoint Speaker Coach

Use Microsoft Speaker Coach for a unique way to improve both your online and in-person speaking and presentation skills. Its AI-based approach frees you up to practice when and where you want to, without need to impose on colleagues. In an increasing remote and hybrid working world, its range of features can make you a more dynamic presenter.

You may come to find Speaker Coach so useful that you begin to find that using PowerPoint to both give presentations and design the accompanying slides becomes fun again.

How educators can use Speaker Coach to develop confident public speakers

August 10, 2023.

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Microsoft Learning Accelerators are a suite of tools that help students catch up, keep up, and get ahead by building foundational and future-ready skills. Each Learning Accelerator is seamlessly integrated into products that educators and students know and love like Microsoft Teams , OneNote, PowerPoint, Word, and more. Speaker Coach , a free, ready-to-use Learning Accelerator, helps students develop good public speaking practices when presenting ideas to a group—an essential skill when sharing a class report, reviewing financials in the workplace, or communicating ideas from a podium.

Many students find public speaking intimidating. Speaker Coach is a virtual assistant that helps students become better, more confident public speakers by providing insights that are both private and tailored to their abilities. Available in PowerPoint and Clipchamp , Speaker Coach analyzes how students communicate using built-in technology that listens for ways to improve things like pace, pitch, filler words, and pronunciation. Its robust capabilities replicate feedback from an expert public speaking trainer without the need to have another person listen or critique. This ensures a non-threatening environment for even the most nervous student to rehearse their public speaking over and over again.

Explore how your students can use Speaker Coach in PowerPoint to reduce anxiety and become poised, confident speakers during their next presentation.

Open Speaker Coach in PowerPoint

Speaker Coach is available whenever students might want to practice presenting. All that’s required is access to PowerPoint and an updated browser with Internet connection. Because Speaker Coach uses the microphone and camera to capture real-time insights, soft-spoken students might benefit from a headset or external microphone while rehearsing.

To get started, open PowerPoint and sign in with a Microsoft account. Speaker Coach is available in the PowerPoint desktop app and PowerPoint for the web on Windows, Mac, and iOS. Speaker Coach currently understands English and Spanish language speakers—just be sure the Office user interface is set to the corresponding language for it to work.

On the Slide Show tab in PowerPoint, select Rehearse with Coach to use Speaker Coach. Selecting Body language analyzes posture but is turned off by default.

Tip:  Accurate feedback requires a quiet space that minimizes audio interference, so encourage students to find a location that’s not heavily trafficked. Speaker Coach also works best when one student is speaking; expect less accurate feedback if more than one student is rehearsing on the same device.

Start rehearsing: No audience required

Speaker Coach automatically assesses how information is shared on each slide when a student starts rehearsing. Nobody needs to watch because Speaker Coach tracks everything that’s said and keeps a log of what it notices. It also includes an option to display real-time feedback for those who want to adjust their speech while practicing.

Speaker Coach includes hints when Show real-time feedback is checked.

Tip: Disable real-time feedback when students first start rehearsing their presentation. This prevents hints from being displayed which can distract students who are learning foundational public speaking skills. Too many suggestions can also create an overwhelming experience for some, especially if Speaker Coach identifies multiple improvement areas.

Review and improve public speaking skills

Speaker Coach generates a personalized report when a student exits their rehearsal. This valuable learning summary is tailored to the practice session, contains interactive feedback and analysis, and is privately shared so that the student can review suggestions on their own.

The rehearsal report includes focused feedback on metrics known to influence how an audience perceives a presentation.

• Summary: Provides elapsed time and the number of slides reviewed.
• Fillers:  Highlights frequently used filler words like “um” and “you know.”
• Repetitive Language:  Counts words and phrases that are repeatedly spoken.
• Inclusiveness: Discovers when language is not inclusive in areas like disability, gender, and race.
• Pace: Monitors speed and receive pacing suggestions that increase audience recall and comprehension.
• Pitch: Listens for monotone pitch that can negatively affect messaging.
• Originality: Calls out instances when reading directly from a slide.
• Rehearse Again: Clears all the data in the report and starts a new rehearsal.

Speaker Coach also provides data on other metrics known to improve public speaking.

• Pronunciation: Isolates muddled words or mispronunciations.
• Speech Refinements: Spots speech problems like wordiness and euphemisms.
• Body Language: Analyzes physical mannerisms, posture, and eye contact (optional).

Tip: The rehearsal report disappears when closed, so show students how to take a screenshot if it’s important to save or share their progress. Some students might also benefit from explicit teaching about fillers, pace, and repetitive words. See Suggestions from Speaker Coach for helpful hints and resources about how each measured characteristic contributes to a well-received presentation.

Rehearse public speaking again and again

There’s no limit to how many times a student can rehearse a PowerPoint presentation with Speaker Coach. Mike Thomas, a Senior Digital Learning Analyst for Springfield Public Schools in Massachusetts (U.S.), uses Speaker Coach throughout his school district to help students become more proficient at presenting . With each rehearsal, students gain confidence in what and how they are communicating.

“Being able to have the ability to practice and get real-time feedback is where Speaker Coach really comes in and helps our students.”

Springfield students are not the only ones benefiting from Speaker Coach; a cadre of Springfield educators also use it to practice how they deliver lessons and information at meetings. Computer science teacher Melissa Zeitz rehearses with Speaker Coach whenever she is preparing for a conference presentation. It has become an indispensable way for her to check that she is “speaking properly, pronouncing everything, not going too fast, and . . . not reading too much of [her] slides.”

Try Speaker Coach for yourself to improve your own public speaking skills—and use it with your students to help them improve theirs, as well. Speaker Coach is available for free in PowerPoint and Clipchamp, with Microsoft Teams integration coming soon.

Learn more and get additional information with these great public speaking training resources!

• A Quick Guide to Speaker Coach
• Strengthen presentation skills with Speaker Coach
• Rehearse your slide show with Speaker Coach - Microsoft Support

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Microsoft’s PowerPoint Presenter Coach uses AI to help you nail your presentation

If you’re the type of person who methodically fine-tunes their PowerPoint presentations the night before, or someone who just wants to improve their speaking style—well, Microsoft’s AI is ready and eager to help you out with PowerPoint Presenter Coach.

Originally launched in July 2019 , PowerPoint Presenter Coach is now generally available for Windows, the web, and even iOS and Android, Microsoft said Wednesday. The tool looks at several aspects of your presentation, from the language you use to even how you address speakers, and offers advice. You’ll need to subscribe to Microsoft 365 to use Presenter Coach, however.

Microsoft is even adding new critiques as the service goes live, with an eye toward presentations you’re making on Teams or Zoom. First, Presenter Coach will look for body language: If you’re constantly looking away from the camera, the Coach will remind you to engage your audience with your eyes. Specifically, the Coach wants to see your face clearly, and make sure that your eyes are directed at the camera. Finally, it will advise whether you’re too close or too far away to be seen clearly.

The Presenter Coach will listen for your language. Do you overuse specific words or phrases? Repeat yourself? If you do, Presenter Coach will flag you for improvement.

Finally, Presenter Coach will listen for your pronunciation and offer suggestions via  a recorded pronunciation guide. In a blog post , Microsoft admitted that this feature could be a bit controversial. The feedback is being optimized for what the company calls “General American English,” but Microsoft will also provide the option of disabling the feedback in case you disagree with the suggestions or don’t otherwise find them useful.

Presumably, Presenter Coach will also include the features that Microsoft originally planned, such as catching you if you accidentally drop a bad word into your presentation.

Here’s how to find the PowerPoint Presentation Coach within PowerPoint.

How to use Presenter Coach for PowerPoint

To start working with Presenter Coach, you’ll need to open your presentation within PowerPoint. In the Slide Show tab, as part of the Rehearse Group, click  Rehearse with Coach . Then click  Start Rehearsing to begin your presentation, and check the Show real-time feedback  box if you’d like ongoing guidance. Only begin speaking, however, once you see the  Listening… prompt appear. If you’ve enabled real-time guidance, the Coach will remind you not to drop in “filler” words, for example, as you speak.

At the end, you’ll see a Rehearsal Report that summarizes the feedback from the Coach. Be sure and take a screenshot, though! For privacy’s sake, Microsoft will delete the feedback after you’re through, and it also won’t save a recording of your performance.

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Microsoft’s Presenter Coach, which helps you practice presentations, has been available on the web version of PowerPoint for a while now, but it’s finally coming to the desktop and mobile versions of the app. According to Microsoft , the feature will now be available on Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, and, of course, the web.

PowerPoint Presenter Coach listens to you while you practice a presentation out loud — it analyzes what you’re saying, and can warn you if you’re talking too fast or slow, using filler words like “um” or “ahh,” or just reading the words off the slide (a personal pet peeve of mine). Trying it out on both PowerPoint for Windows and iOS, it worked shockingly well, doing pretty much everything Microsoft says it should. At the end it gives you a little report, telling you what you need to practice.

Along with the expanded availability, there are also some new ways that the feature can try to make your presentation better: it can look at body language (how close you are to the camera, if you’re making eye contact or putting things in front of your face), and warn you if you’re repeating words or saying them wrong. And yes, it still tells you not to swear in your presentation.

When I tried it, the feature didn’t show up in the Mac version of the app, but I was able to use it on iOS. Microsoft said the Presenter feature would be rolled out to all Mac users by the end of the month.

Microsoft also said that the processing for the feature is done on its servers, but is not stored. It is worth keeping in mind that this means you won’t be able to use the feature without an internet connection.

Update March 18th, 12:00PM ET : Added information from Microsoft regarding the Mac version and where the data is analyzed.

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Presenter Coach or Rehearse in PowerPoint for Windows helps polish your presentation before going before an audience.

Getting Started with Coach

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This cloud-based feature is PowerPoint Online (web browser) and PowerPoint 365 for Windows If you don’t have Coach in your version of PowerPoint, try it from the web version of PowerPoint .

Make your slide deck and script (or at least speaking notes). 

Check that your microphone is working and can clearly ‘hear’ your voice (like Dictation, Presenter Coach doesn’t have any in-built test for this).

Go to Slide Show | Rehearse with Coach.

With PowerPoint Online the same option is on the View tab.

That opens the Presenter Coach dialog.

The presentation will open, full screen, but with a Rehearse box bottom right.

Click Start Rehearsing.

Talk into the computer microphone and move through the slides just like a normal presentation.

The Coach box bottom right indicates if it’s ‘listening’ with occasional encouragements.

Behind the scenes, your spoken words are being converted to text (just like Dictation in Word) and compared with the slide text.   The speed that you talk is also monitored.

Click on the microphone icon to pause the rehearsal and restart later.

When you’ve finished your rehearsal, exit the presentation as usual (press Escape) then wait a moment to see a Rehearsal Report.

Some Rehearsal Report items only appear if there’s a problem so each report can be different.

Summary – rehearsal time and slide count

Originality – compares the slide text with what you said.

Pace – don’t go too fast or slow. Presenter Coach shows your speaking pace.  Between 100 and 165 words per minute is considered ideal.

Pace over time – a graph of your speaking pace during the rehearsal.

Pitch – Coach will warn about a monotone speech with little tone variation.

Speech Refinements – lookout for “wordiness, euphemisms, possessive/plural forms, agreement within noun phrases, and informal language.” .  A mixture of grammar checking and certain key phrases.

Sensitive Phrases – Coach listens for “culturally sensitive phrases in these areas: disability, age, gender, race, sexual orientation, mental health, sensitive geopolitical topics, and profanity. “  It’ll warn you if the transcribed text contains something that might offend.

Fillers – filler words indicate a speaker lacking confidence or knowledge of the subject.  Microsoft doesn’t say what they think are ‘fillers’ but “Over time, Coach will learn from your experience using this feature.”

The quality of the feedback is very dependant on transcription (Speech to Text) happening in the background.

Coach doesn’t have an option to see the transcription it’s made, so it’s hard to judge if the results are accurate.  For example, if the transcription is poor, just reading slides won’t be picked up as an ‘Originality’ issue.  Speech Refinements, Sensitive Phrases and Filler tests are all compromised by a bad transcription.

Customers would be better served if they could ‘dig down’ to see the transcription.  If the ‘speech to text’ hasn’t worked well, some improvements to the microphone setup might help get better Presenter Coach results.  A transcription view would let customers judge the accuracy of the report and give better feedback to the Presenter Coach team.

Rehearsing a presentation is important but too many of us just do the slides and speaker notes without trying out the whole thing.  We’re as guilty of that as anyone.

The problem is feedback on your presentation rehearsal.  While Presenter Coach isn’t perfect, it does give some guidance and something to aim for in preparing your speech with slides.

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Improve your presenting skills with Teams Meeting Coach

When you’re sharing a PowerPoint deck in a Teams meeting, Meeting Coach can offer private, real-time tips to help make your presentation more compelling. 

Turn on Meeting Coach 

Share your PowerPoint deck. For instructions on how to start sharing, read Share PowerPoint slides in a Teams meeting .

Beneath the current slide, select Meeting Coach .

Near the top of the screen, you’ll see suggestions for improving your delivery.

Types of feedback 

Meeting Coach provides feedback in the following areas: 

Fillers: Are you overusing sounds like “um” or “ah”, or words like “basically” or “like"? Reducing these filler words can help your presentation flow better.

Pace: Should you try slowing down or speeding up your delivery? Studies have shown that 80 to 160 words per minute is best for listener comprehension.

Sensitive language: Have you used words or phrases that could be interpreted as insensitive? Meeting Coach listens for non-inclusive speech about disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, race, mental health, and ethnic identity.

Pitch: Should you try varying you speaking tone? Monotone delivery can make paying attention more difficult.

Speech refinement: provides suggestions on better grammar and usage.

View feedback details 

Your Meeting Coach report will appear on-screen after the meeting with an option to save it for future reference.

You can select a category on the left to view details on your delivery.

The report will also be available to view and download on the Details tab of the meeting event in your calendar.

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New capabilities available in Presenter Coach in PowerPoint

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Hi, I am Angelo Liao, a Program Manager on the PowerPoint team. I’m excited to introduce some capabilities we are adding to the PowerPoint Presenter Coach .

Last year, we introduced Presenter Coach to help address one of the most common fears for people around the world: public speaking. Presenter Coach in PowerPoint uses AI to help you rehearse upcoming presentations. For instance, it flags issues such as talking too fast, saying “umm” too much, or just reading the text from your slides.

Prerequisites

To use Presenter Coach, you need:

• A microphone-enabled device or an external microphone.
• A stable internet connection.

If possible, try eliminating as much background noise as possible from your environment.

New Capabilities in Presenter Coach

Based on feedback for Preview participants, we rolled out two new capabilities:

• Monotone pitch : Presenter Coach will listen to your tone of voice and give feedback in real-time to suggest varying your tone to keep your audience engaged.

• Speech refinement : You’ll now see grammar suggestions, including how to phrase your speech better.

How it works

• Open the presentation you want to rehearse in PowerPoint for the web.
• Click Slide Show -> Rehearse with Coach .
• Click Get Started .
• Rehearse your presentation and watch for real-time prompts when a monotone pitch is detected. In addition, notice when you address the feedback and use a lively pitch.
• After finishing, press Esc to exit the slideshow.
• Review the feedback and try to incorporate it the next time you rehearse or when it’s showtime.

Tip: Try to speak as if you were in front of an audience or giving a presentation remotely in front of others.

Availability

Presenter Coach is available on PowerPoint for the web for everyone through a free preview. Eventually, it will only be available to Microsoft 365 subscribers.

We typically release features over some time to ensure that things are working smoothly. This is true for Insiders as well. We highlight features that you may not have because they’re slowly releasing to larger numbers of Insiders. Sometimes we remove elements to further improve them based on your feedback. Though this is rare, we also reserve the option to pull a feature entirely out of the product, even if you, as Insiders, have had the opportunity to try them.

Supported Languages

Currently, Presenter Coach only supports English, but we plan to include more languages in the future.

We don’t store your speech data. Your speech utterances will be sent to Microsoft only to provide you with this service. For more information, see Connected Experiences in Office.

If you have any feedback or suggestions, submit them via the Feedback button in the Presenter Coach summary report or by clicking  Help > Feedback . 

Learn what  other information you should include in your feedback  to ensure  it’s actionable and reaches the right people. We’re excited to hear from you! 

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Microsoft Teams Presents Speaker Coach With PowerPoint

Powerpoint’s presenter coach is now speaker coach in microsoft teams.

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• A PowerPoint feature known as ‘Cameo’ that utilizes a Teams camera to display a talking head next to presentation slides
• A richer in-room feature for Companion Mode in Teams mobile
• Quicker controls for muting and disabling cameras
• Better hotdesking support for Teams displays
• Teams support for Apple CarPlay to enable hands-free meetings using Siri.

Who Can Benefit from Speaker Coach?

Speaker coach availability.

• A stable internet connection
• A microphone-enabled gadget or an external microphone
• Minimize as much background noise as possible
• Speech refinement: Users will now see grammar suggestions and the correct way to phrase their speech better.
• Monotone pitch: Speaker Coach will listen to your tone and provide feedback in real-time to help you vary your tone and keep your audience engaged.

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• About Mild TBI and Concussion
• After a Mild TBI or Concussion
• Health Disparities in TBI
• Comparing Head Impacts
• Clinical Guidance
• Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Management Guideline
• Resources for Health Care Providers

Traumatic Brain Injury & Concussion

About Moderate and Severe TBI

Preventing TBI

Symptoms of Mild TBI and Concussion

Where to Get Help

Facts About TBI

For Medical Professionals

Clinical Guidance for Pediatric mTBI

Health Care Provider Resources

CDC Programs

HEADS UP Online Training Courses

National Concussion Surveillance System

Core State Injury Prevention Program (Core SIPP)

A traumatic brain injury, or TBI, is an injury that affects how the brain works. TBI is a major cause of death and disability in the United States.

For Everyone

Health care providers.