AllGoodSpeakers ApS: The rhetoric research company

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What is the shortest path between two points? A straight line, i.e. a direct link without waypoints and detours. So what is the fastest and most effective way to offer up-to-date rhetorical training? To do own research and directly implement its results in products and services. This is what we do.

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AllGoodSpeakers does not simply take research into account. AllGoodSpeakers is itself a research company! We continuously conduct top-notch experimental and instrumental speech-production and speech-perception research. We can rely on one of the world's largest oral-presentation databases, and each new dataset makes PISCA and Acoustic Voice Profiling® a little smarter and more precise.

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And this is only the first step. In combination with the charismatic voice of a speaker, we also do research on attire, the sound of shoe heels, foreign-language accents, the ideal microphone, and a lot of other things that help you improve your personal charismatic impact on people. In the near future, PICSA will be able to measure how tall you sound acoustically! The taller a person the stronger is his/her charismatic impact. We will be the first to teach you how to sound not just better but also taller. Imagine the advantage that this ability gives you over others, for example, on the phone or in video conferences!

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Research conducted by AllGoodSpeakers also helped confirming or busting some common myths about charismatic speech. Is a clear pronunciation really beneficial for your charismatic impact? Yes, that's right! Does belly breathing help in sounding more charismatic? No, that's just a myth! Do more charismatic speakers have lower voices? No, that's a myth as well. Rather, the opposite is true! Have a look at this scientific article here. And if you want to learn what really matters for charismatic leadership and presentations, book a course with us!

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Our goal: We define the state-of-the-art in rhetorical charisma training!

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Curious? Then stay up to date, check out our latest findings and publications, and find out when there are special offers and promotions. Here you can subscribe to our AGS newsletter on the startpage.

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Any feedback on our publications or research and development activities? Then please feel free to leave a comment below.

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Recent publications:

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Niebuhr, O., A. Brem, & J. Voße (2016). What makes a charismatic speaker? A computer-based acoustic prosodic analysis of Steve Jobs' tone of voice. Computers in Human Behavior 64, 366-382.

 

Niebuhr, O. (2016). Rich Reduction: Sound-segment residuals and the encoding of communicative functions along the hypo-hyper scale. In: Botinis, A. (Ed.), Experimental Linguistics (pp. 11-24). Athens: University of Athens Press.

 

Niebuhr, O. (2016). Who wants to be a blabbermouth? Prosodic cues to correct answers in the WWTBM quiz show scenario. Proc. 8th International Conference of Speech Prosody, Boston, USA, 1-5.

 

Berger, S., C. Marquard & O. Niebuhr (2016). Having an eye on read speech – How different typefaces affect speech prosody. Proc. 8th International Conference of Speech Prosody, Boston, USA, 1-5.

 

Niebuhr, O., S. Tegtmeier, & A. Brem (2017). Advancing research and practice in entrepreneurship through speech analysis – From descriptive rhetorical terms to phonetically informed acoustic charisma metrics. Journal of Speech Science 6, 3-26.

 

Novák-Tót, E., O. Niebuhr, O. & A. Chen (2017). A gender bias in the acoustic-melodic features of charismatic speech? Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Stockholm, Sweden, 2248-2252.

 

Niebuhr, O., M. Alm, N. Schümchen & K. Fischer (2017). Comparing Visualization Techniques for Learning Second Language Prosody - First Results. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 3, 252-279.

 

Niebuhr, O. (2017). Clear Speech - Mere Speech? How segmental and prosodic speech reduction shape the impression that speakers create on listeners. Proceedings of 18th International Interspeech Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 894-898.

 

Niebuhr, O. & A. Nazaryan (2018). Money talks -- but less well so over the mobile phone? The Persistence of the Telephone Voice in a 4G Technology Setting and the Resulting Implications for Business Communication and Mobile-Phone Innovation. International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management.

 

Niebuhr, O., Tegtmeier, S. & Schweisfurth, T. (2018). Female Speakers Benefit More Than Male Speakers From Prosodic Charisma Training—A Before-After Analysis of 12-Weeks and 4-h Courses. Frontiers in Communications, 1-12.

 

Niebuhr, O., R. Skarnitzl & L. Tylečková (2018). The acoustic fingerprint of a charismatic voice - Initial evidence from correlations between long-term spectral features and listener ratings. Proc. 9th International Conference of Speech Prosody, Poznan, Poland, 1-5.

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Niebuhr, O. & J. Michalsky (2018). Virtual reality simulations as a new tool for practicing presentations and refining public-speaking skills. Proc. 9th International Conference of Speech Prosody, Poznan, Poland, 1-5.

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Berger, S., O. Niebuhr, & K. Fischer (2018). Eliciting extra prominence in read-speech tasks: The effects of different text-highlighting methods on acoustic cues to perceived prominence. Proc. 9th International Conference of Speech Prosody, Poznan, Poland, 1-5.

 

Niebuhr, O., J. Thumm, & J. Michalsky (2018). Shapes and timing in charismatic speech - Evidence from sounds and melodies. Proc. 9th International Conference of Speech Prosody, Poznan, Poland, 1-5..

 

Niebuhr, O. & S. Gonzalez (2019). Do sound segments contribute to sounding charismatic? Evidence from acoustic vowel space analyses of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration 24, 343-355.

 

Niebuhr, O., K. Kleine & S. Tegtmeier (2019). Virtual-Reality as a Digital-Learning Tool in Entrepreneurship: How VR environments help entrepreneurs give more charismatic investor pitches. In: R. Baierl, J. Behrens, A. Brem (Eds),  Interfaces between Digital Technologies and Entrepreneurship. New York: Springer.

 

Berger, S., O. Niebuhr, & M. Zellers (2019). A preliminary study of charismatic speech on YouTube: correlating prosodic variation with counts of subscribers, views and likes. 10th Proc. International Conference of Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech). 1761-1765.

 

Niebuhr, O. & K. Fischer (2019). Do not hesitate! – Unless you do it shortly or nasally: How the phonetics of filled pauses determine their subjective frequency and perceived speaker performance. 10th Proc. International Conference of Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech), 544-548.

 

Niebuhr, O. & U. Schjoedt (2019). God as interlocutor - real or imaginary? Prosodic markers of dialogue speech and expected efficacy in spoken prayer, 10th Proc. International Conference of Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech), 36-40.

 

Niebuhr, O. & Jan Michalsky (2019). PASCAL and DPA: A pilot study on using prosodic competence scores to predict communicative skills for team working and public speaking, 10th Proc. International Conference of Spoken Language Processing (Interspeech),306-310.

 

Niebuhr, O. & R. Skarnitzl (2019). Measuring a speaker's acoustic correlates of pitch - but which? A contrastive analysis for perceived speaker charisma. Proc. 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 1774-1778

 

Niebuhr, O. & Michalsky (2019). Computer-Generated Speaker Charisma and Its Effects on Human Actions in a Car-Navigation System Experiment - or How Steve Jobs’Tone of Voice Can Take You Anywhere. In Misra, S., Torre, C., Tarantino, E., Apduhan, B. O., Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Stankova, E., Korkhov, V.,

Rocha, A. M. A. C. & Taniar, D. (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 375–390). New York: Springer Nature.

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D'Errico, F., O. Niebuhr & I. Poggi (2019). Humble Voices in Political Communication: A Speech Analysis Across Two Cultures. In Misra, S., Torre, C., Tarantino, E., Apduhan, B. O., Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Stankova, E., Korkhov, V., Rocha, A. M. A. C. & Taniar, D. (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 361–374). New York: Springer Nature.

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Michalsky, J., & Niebuhr, O. (2019). MYTH BUSTED? CHALLENGING WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW ABOUT CHARISMATIC SPEECH. Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica, 2019(2), 27-56.

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Fischer, K., Niebuhr, O., Jensen, L. C., & Bodenhagen, L. (2019). Speech Melody Matters—How Robots Profit from Using Charismatic Speech. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), 9(1), 4.

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Neitsch, J., & Niebuhr, O. (2019). Questions as prosodic configurations: How prosody and context shape the multiparametric acoustic nature of rhetorical questions in German. Proc. 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 2425-2429.

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Gutnyk, A., Niebuhr, O. & Gu, W. (2019). Differences in gender-specific charismatic speech across countries and languages. Proc. 1st International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech, Sondebrorg, Denmark, 27-29.

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Niebuhr, O. & Wrzeczsz, S. (2019). A woman's gotta do what a woman's gotta do, and a man's gotta say what a man's gotta say - Sex-specific differences in the production and perception of persuasive power. Proc. 16th International Pragmatics Conference, Hong Kong, China, 1-2.

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Neitsch, J. & Niebuhr, O. (2019). How prosody and context shape the acoustic nature of rhetorical questions in German. Proc. 1st International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech, Sondebrorg, Denmark, 53-55.

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Berger, S., Niebuhr, O., & Zellers, M. (2019). Alternative phrase boundary symbolization and its effect on pause duration. Proc. 1st International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech, Sondebrorg, Denmark, 69-71.

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Ploug, M. & Niebuhr, O. (2019). There is music in speech melody! - How pitch intervals shape speaker charisma. Proc. 1st International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech, Sondebrorg, Denmark, 76-78.

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Fischer, K., Niebuhr, O., Langedijk, R.M., & Eisenberger, S. (2019). Shall Know you by your Voice – Melodic and Physical Dominance in the Design of Robot Voices. Proc. 1st International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech, Sondebrorg, Denmark, 88-90.

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Barbosa, P., Niebuhr, O., & Neitsch, J. (2019). Revisiting rhetorical claims of breathing for persuasive speech. Proc. 1st International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech, Sondebrorg, Denmark, 103-105.

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Brem, A. & O. Niebuhr (2020). Dress to impress? On the interaction of attire with prosody and gender in the perception of speaker charisma. In B. Weiß, J. Trouvain, Melissa Barkat-Defradas, J. Ohala (Eds.), Voice Attractiveness: Studies on Sexy, Likable, and Charismatic Speakers (pp. 183-213). Singapore: Springer Nature.

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Niebuhr, O., Brem, A., Michalsky, J., & Neitsch, J. (2020). What makes business speakers sound charismatic? A contrastive acoustic-melodic analysis of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. Cadernos de Linguistica e Teoria da Literatura 1(1), 1-40.

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Niebuhr, O., Neitsch, J., & Michalsky, J. (2020). Akustisches Charisma Profiling: Auf dem Weg zur digitalen Rhetorik. DEGA Akustik Journal, 20(2), 7-22.

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Michalsky, J., Niebuhr, O., & Penke, L. (2020). Do charismatic people produce charismatic speech? On the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and prosodic features of speaker charisma in female speakers. Proc. 10th International Conference of Speech Prosody, Tokyo, Japan, 700-704.

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Niebuhr, O. (2020). "Space fighters" on stage - How F1 and F2 vowel-space dimensions contribute to perceived speaker charisma. In A. Wendemuth, R. Böck, & I. Siegert (Eds.), Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation (Vol. 95, pp. 265-277). Dresden: TUDPress.

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Fischer, K., & Niebuhr, O. (2020). Studying Language Attitudes Using Robots. Proc. HRI '20: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 195–196.

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Niebuhr, O. & Neitsch, J. (2020). Digital Rhetoric 2.0: How to Train Charismatic Speaking with Speech-Melody Visualization Software. In: A. Karpov, R. Potapova (eds), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 12335, Speech & Computer, pp. 357-368). New York: Springer Nature. 

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Barbosa, P. & Niebuhr, O. (2020). Persuasive speech is a matter of acoustics and chest breathing only. In M. Elmentaler & O. Niebuhr (Eds), An den Rändern der Sprache (pp. 551-578). Frankfurt/New York: Peter Lang.

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Berger, S., Niebuhr, O., & Brem, A. (2020). Of voices and votes: Phonetic charisma and the myth of Nixon’s radio victory in his first 1960 TV debate with Kennedy. In M. Elmentaler & O. Niebuhr (Eds), An den Rändern der Sprache (pp. 109-145). Frankfurt/New York: Peter Lang.

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Gutnyik, A., Niebuhr, O., & Gu, W. (2021). Speaker charisma analyzed through the cultural lens. Proc. 12th IEEE International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, Hong Kong, China, 1-5.

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Niebuhr, O. (to appear). How foreign accents affect perceived speaker charisma. SpeakOut 65, 1-10.

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