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Record it. Hear it. Mark it.
Pick a drill or paste your own words, record yourself, then play it back and mark what you hear. Your pitch line shows whether each sentence went up or came down.
1Pick a drill2Mark your intent3Record or upload4Play back and count5Score and save
The script
Click a word to mark it as the operative word. Mark how each sentence should end: ↑ up, → held, ↓ down.
Record
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Example trace: a paragraph held through and landed on the last sentence. Record to see yours.
–Length
–Speaking time
–Pauses over 0.5 s
–Longest pause
–Pitch range
Count fillers
Play it back and tap each one you hear. Long-press or right-click to take one off.
Total 0 · – per minute
Self-check
Rate yourself
1 is rough, 5 is how you want to sound.
Your attempt
0Fillers per minute
–Endings as intended
–Sentences with one operative word
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–Words · Voice · Body
Impromptu topics
Speaking off the cuff. Take five seconds, then answer for one minute using PREP: point, reason, example, point again. Set the target to 1 min and record it.
Your project is two weeks late. The client asks why. Go.
Your attempts
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Definitions
- Operative word
- The single most important word in a sentence, given the emphasis. Stress can be a pause before it, a lift in pitch, or slowing down. One per sentence.
- Inflection
- The movement of pitch at the end of a phrase. Down signals a finished thought. Up or held signals more is coming.
- Continuation rise
- The linguists' name for a rise that tells the listener you haven't finished. It keeps attention through a paragraph.
- Filler
- A sound or word that fills silence: um, ah, so, like. A pause does the same job and sounds surer.
- Actioning
- Giving a line a verb for what you're doing to the listener: warn, reassure, challenge, educate. The words stay the same; the delivery changes.
- Pitch range
- The spread between your lower and higher notes, in semitones (10th to 90th percentile here). Under about 4 tends to sound flat.