Talking fast can lead to a lack of clear enunciation, articulation and an engaging tone, preventing your message from taking hold in the listener's mind. Tempo warns you while that happens, in real-time, so you can make adjustment.
Hey there 👋🐱,
Today I am launching Tempo, a super simple MacOS app that gently pings you when you are talking too fast during presentations.
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I lived it myself, presenting to Craig Federighi one of my features during my time at Apple and after the presentation one of my manager's feedback was that I was going a little too fast. I see it when my wife presents her work, often in times there are bursts of speeches that make the presentation difficult to absorb. And I see it often when my colleagues present their work on a weekly basis.
Post presenting feedback is great but it doesn't really prevent this from happening next time you present your work. And of course practice helps a tons but even better, practice while it's happening: get notified in real time when you are speeding a little during your presentation and just adjust your tempo.
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Feature lists. While Tempo is super simple to use, it's packed with features:
1️⃣ Personalized notifications: you can choose to be notified either via sound, notification, or both, and adjust the sound if you want to
2️⃣ Burst Detection & Overall Flow: whether you tend to speed up for a short period of time or your overall flow is too fast, with not enough breaks or emphasis on the right words, we have your back. Tempo detects both of the issues and send different notifications for each, for you to adjust accordingly.
3️⃣ Speech Profiles: some tends to talk slow and some tends to talk naturally fast. in Tempo you can choose your speech profile and we adjust the algorithm to take that into account. If you generally tend to speak slow Tempo will be a little more rigid and warns you sooner, but if you are a fast speaker the algorithm will be a little more relaxed. Tempo adjusts to you.
4️⃣ Multi language support: Tempo supports over 30 languages and 60 locales
5️⃣ Multi platform: whether you use Zoom, Slack, or Google meet, or any other video conference software, Tempo just works out of the box.
Tempo is free to try, so let me know what you think!
Cheers
It is really interesting idea to slow speaking, I think it will improve many presentations)
It’s very interesting and a great tool. Appropriate speaking speed and pauses will really improve others’ impression of you. I hope everyone can try using tempo👍
I love the idea of active speech coaching. This is especially true for Zoom meetings, where it's hard to gauge the audience. I could see this tool being helpful to know you're on the right track / making small adjustments as I go.
As someone that tends to talk fast because I’m super uncomfortable presenting, I could use all the help I can get. 😅 Congrats on the launch!
Looks awesome! I’m never sure if I’m speaking too fast or too slow, so ruling out too fast would be half the problem solved :)
This is something nice, this would surely help people have clear communication skills
This is brilliant. Great to see it getting upvotes and attention!
I wondered while I scrolled the landing page if there could be a demo of you speaking fast and slow in a screen recording (sort of like this, but a video? https://shot.screenden.com/v5pjdxWr) and seeing how it works in real time when I landed on the page.
Love this, congrats on your launch!
I guess this is the counter culture to 2.5x faster YouTube videos. Is there any science that slower is better?
