US Patent 9843768 Audience engagement feedback systems and techniques

Embodiments of a system and method for indicating audience engagement are generally described herein. A method may include sending speech from a speaker to be played for a plurality of members of an audience, receiving audience reaction information, for the plurality of members of the audience, from a plurality of sensors, the audience reaction information captured by the plurality of sensors while the speech is playing for the plurality of members of the audience, processing the audience reaction information to aggregate the audience reaction information, determining, using the processed information, an engagement factor, and sending an aggregated engagement level indicator to a speaker device, the aggregated engagement level indicator based on the engagement factor and indicating overall engagement of the audience to the speech.