A 30-day speaking program for iPhone
You know what you mean. It comes out long.
Say less. Mean more. Thirty days of practice, five minutes a day. You answer one question out loud, see your answer as a single line, and carry one change into tomorrow.
Free to start. No account, no score, no paywall before your first session.
The speaking line
Your answer, as one line.
Speech is a line. A pause is the space in the line. Clarity is visible as room between ideas. Here is one person answering the same kind of question on three different days, on one shared axis.
Fifteen seconds of speech before the first break. The point arrives at 50 seconds, after the explaining.
Four clear gaps, about one second each. The point arrives at 30 seconds. Pace is about the same as Day 1.
A shorter answer with even, deliberate gaps, and the point lands in the first six seconds.
While Sayforth is listening
Recording a take
Today’s question
Tell me about a time you changed someone’s mind.
The room dims. Your line begins at the left edge.
It extends while you speak and stops while you are silent, so you learn what a pause looks like while you are taking one. There is no big clock, because the goal is to speak clearly, not to beat one.
Coaching
Read in five seconds. One change, not a report.
What happened
You rushed your opening.
One observation, shown on your own line, with the moment ready to play back.
Your focus
Your point arrived after you had already explained it.
One short sentence. Never a wall of numbers.
Tomorrow
Say your point first. Then give one reason.
The one instruction you carry into the next day.
Try this
Answer in one sentence: what should they remember?
A 30-second drill, if you want it now.
Day 30
Hear the difference.
On Day 30 you answer the Day 1 question again. Then you hear both, read both, and see both on one shared axis.
The later answer is 17 seconds shorter, the heavy stretch moved to the front, and there are fewer hedge ticks under it.
Day 1
Well, I guess I would say I have kind of been in product for six years, and I started out doing support, and… I help teams decide faster.
Day 30
I help teams decide faster. Six years in product. Here is one example from last quarter.
Underlined is the main point in each take.
An illustrative example, not a promise. Observations, never grades. When a number has not really moved, Sayforth says it is about the same.
Private by design
Your recordings stay on your iPhone. We never upload your audio. Only the text of what you said is sent for coaching.
Why it is built this way
The research behind the program
of people say job interviews make them anxious.
JDP survey, 2,018 US adults
is the average dose in trials where speaking anxiety fell substantially. You reach it in your first week.
Reeves et al., 2022, meta-analysis of exposure studies
the effect of feedback that names the task and the next step, compared with praise or a grade.
Wisniewski, Zierer and Hattie, 2020, 435 studies
Day 1
This is where we start.
Nothing to get right.
Day 1 is one question and about a minute of your voice. It is a baseline, not a test. Free to start, with no account and no paywall before your first session.
iPhone, iOS 17 or later.