Stop Um: Filler Words Coach

Say um, hear a beep. Stop Um listens while you talk and beeps the moment you hesitate: um, uh and er in English, euh in French. Speaking clubs train it the same way, with a bell or a clicker, and it works for the same reason: you hear the hesitation when it happens, not in a report the next day. HOW IT WORKS Tap the red button, put your iPhone on the table and talk. Rehearse a pitch, prepare an interview, run through a presentation, read a text out loud. Each hesitation gets a short beep, or just a vibration if you prefer, the counter goes up and your ums per minute update live. EVERY UM ON THE RECORDING Each session is kept on your iPhone. Open it and the waveform shows each um in red. Jump from one to the next and hear what came just before: the sentence you were unsure of, the transition you have not rehearsed yet. Session after session, the list shows whether the number goes down. A…