Automatic Assertiveness Trainer

Is your office populated by too many quiet chaps or timidy ladies? These under assertive people need a helping hand to progress in life. The key to this personality problem is to get the sufferer to where the high-tech Auto Assertiveness Trainer. It is a battery powered headset with a built in close-proximity microphone. The complex electronics would monitor the signal from the microphone such that if no audio signal were to be detected for say 30-40 seconds a electrical charge could be dispatched to the sufferer, prompting the him/her to begin talking. A low level audio alarm could be sounded after about 20 seconds of silence to warn of the impending shock. One would envisage that the required audio signal strength needed to dis-arm the system would be gradually increased so that over a few days the sufferer would be able to talk loudly and constantly in all situations. A more advanced model currently under development looks for repitious voice patterns so exercising the sufferer's brain in its constant search for something different to say !