  Talented public speakers have thousands of hours of practice. One means of
improving public speaking skills is practice through improvisation, e.g.
presenting an improvised presentation using an unseen slide deck. We present
TEDRIC, a novel system capable of generating coherent slide decks based on a
single topic suggestion. It combines semantic word webs with text and image
data sources to create an engaging slide deck with an overarching theme. We
found that audience members perceived the quality of improvised presentations
using these generated slide decks to be on par with presentations using human
created slide decks for the Improvised TED Talk performance format. TEDRIC is
thus a valuable new creative tool for improvisers to perform with, and for
anyone looking to improve their presentation skills.
