TJ Walker talks with Dr. Bear about using digital clones to practice public speaking in simulated environments. Dr. Bear's avatars, developed since 2016, can present in 15 languages. At a Cairo keynote, the audience thought his Arabic-speaking clone was a fluent speaker.
Can you walk us through that? What, what is that? How would that help someone if they're nervous about public speaking? How would you use that?
Well, we, we can simulate different environments. So, and we go step by step from a small room with just a two colleagues to a bigger room, like a seminar room with 20, 30, 40 colleagues to a big audience in a, in a, in a huge theater. And you let people give their speech and then you, you see their reaction, you see their body language, you see their voice change from room to room. And even if they know it's, it's not a real environment, after let's say one or two minutes, they're fully into this situation. And for them it's a softer approach than to go from around a 10 people to an audience of 1,000 people. So that's very good. And we liked it. We were like a pioneer here. I've never met someone else doing this. We started this in 2016 and we still like it. We do now a lot with avatars. We experienced a lot with them with this digital clone. We did a series on.
Do you. Let me follow up on that if I could. Do you have a digital clone? Like if I go to your website and I spoke German.
If you have my YouTube channel, I have an explanation why you need media training In I think 15 languages. And most people don't even realize that this is a clone. For me it's obvious because it's a wide angle video which created the clone and we will probably update this, but it was just the experiencing. And I can tell you I was invited last year for a keynote in Cairo, in Egypt on fake news and deepfake. And first of all, I presented them my digital clone on screen, telling them in Arabic, watch out, there's an analog guy coming and telling you something about deep fake and fake news. Don't believe him. He's completely analog and he's from Germany. And they stared at it and said, that can't be. It's unbelievable. How did you learn Arabic so good? And he said, no, that's a clone. And I said, well, how, how good was the Arabic? And I said, Nikolai, this Arabic is so perfect. Probably only two professors on the University of Cairo could speak that kind of Arabic. It's too good. So, and, and by the way, we've had, right now, it's just a little bit of fun game.
One second, we've had some people asking to see your YouTube channel. I just want to remind them if you scroll up in the comments earlier in the comments, we, we've posted a link to Dr. Bear's YouTube channel and you can, you can fish around and look for that as well.
Oh yeah Unfortunately I have two YouTube channels the English one has not so many hits so I gave you the German one with an English playlist but the avatars I think are in the other one and it's, it's Dikt Media training maybe they can find it this way by YouTube or if they, if they sent me a message I would I will send them the link and it's very fun and we have posted.
On LinkedIn page and they can reach out to you there as well and we'll, we'll try to post the correct link in the show notes as well. Do you envision a day or maybe you're already doing it? Can your clone actually conduct a training with a client at this point? Can it answer people, listen to them, respond to them?
I think for some basic training definitely yes.
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