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
About Tempo on Product Hunt
“Stop speaking too fast during presentations”
Tempo launched on Product Hunt on April 17th, 2024 and earned 392 upvotes and 41 comments, placing #4 on the daily leaderboard. 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.
On the analytics side, Tempo competes within Productivity and Education — topics that collectively have 728.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Tempo performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Tempo?
Tempo was hunted by Luca Lupo. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Tempo including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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