Tempo: Public Speaking Coach

Hey there 👋🐱, Today I am launching Tempo, a super simple MacOS app that gently pings you when you are talking too fast during presentations. story time 👇 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. end of story time ☝️ 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

I guess this is the counter culture to 2.5x faster YouTube videos. Is there any science that slower is better?

Hey Luca! It's so interesting cause everybody tend to look for more and more speed but it's also true that it can be counterproductive at the end. Hope all the makers here can find it out as useful at it is. All the best!

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!

This is an amazing idea. I love the solution. Good job guys!

Great product, Luca! I'll try it in my next presentation It would be interesting to see statistics if Tempo helps people to present slowly long-term

I know many MANY people who could get a lot of use out of this product. I'm definitely about to start sending this one around! Great work, very cool product 👏👏👏