TY - CHAP A1 - Blaabjerg Karlsen, Tobias A1 - Decuzar de Castro, Karl Jhon A1 - Pipars, Emils A1 - Abdel Qader, Iyad Ahed Abdelrahman A1 - Ilinca Sainz, Jose Dumitru A1 - Srugys, Simas A1 - Niebuhr, Oliver ED - Baumann, Timo T1 - In Tune With In-Poco? A New Device for Analyzing and Training the Interplay of Body Posture and Charismatic Speech Prosody T2 - Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung 2024, Tagungsband der 35. Konferenz, Regensburg, 6.-8. März 2024 N2 - Our paper introduces a new technology for posture research and training: the INteractive POsture COrrector, IN-POCO. The device warns its users about unfavorable postures when speaking (e.g., sitting in video conferences) and is thus suitable as an aid for rhetoric trainers. In addition, IN-POCO can also collect time-aligned posture and speech signals for researching prosody-posture relationships in the speech sciences. We outline the motivation for the development of IN-POCO and describe the key technical specifications and operational characteristics. The paper concludes with a pilot experiment in which we provide initial evidence that, for a communicative (public) speaking task, posture does indeed affect speech prosody in gender-specific ways – in line with claims of rhetoric trainers and guidebooks, and such that an unfavorable (e.g,, humped) posture can be assumed to reduce the speaker's vocal charisma. Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:898-opus4-70900 SN - 978-3-95908-325-6 SP - 132 EP - 140 PB - TUDpress CY - Dresden ER -