Elocute: Public Speaking Coach

Talk for thirty seconds. Elocute tells you exactly how you sounded — and then helps you fix it. WHAT IT MEASURES • Hesitations — every "um" and "uh" it can prove, with the moment each one happened. Tap one to hear yourself. • Pace — your words per minute, against the band a listener finds comfortable. • Pauses — how long your silences run, and which ones stop reading as thinking and start reading as lost. • Pitch — whether your voice actually moves, or flattens out. • Volume — whether you fade away at the end of sentences, where the point usually lives. THE PART NOBODY ELSE DOES Elocute reports a floor, not a total. If it says seven, you said at least seven. It will never round up to sound clever or round down to flatter you, and it will never invent a score. That sounds like a small thing. It is the whole thing. A number you cannot trust is worse than no number, because you will train…