rhetoric

Speech analysis

Honest speech analysis from your real voice

You can't hear your own filler words, and adrenaline lies to you about your pace. Rhetoric closes that gap with measurement you can trust, numbers from your real voice, plus a deep rhetorical audit of your words, with every result labeled for what it is.

Measured, not guessed

As you rehearse, Rhetoric measures the things you can't feel: your pace in words per minute (including where it drifts across the speech), how often filler words slip in, how much of your material you actually covered, and how quickly you recovered when you lost your place.

These are computed locally from your speech (fast, private, and consistent), so the number moves only when your delivery actually changes.

  • Words per minute, as a curve, not just an average.
  • Filler-word counts you can watch fall over time.
  • Idea coverage and time-to-recovery after a stumble.

The Rhetorical Audit: feedback on your words

Beyond delivery, the Rhetorical Audit analyzes the writing itself (ethos, pathos, and logos; structure and narrative; clarity and diction) and quotes the exact phrases it's reacting to, with concrete rewrite suggestions.

The overall persuasion score is computed in code from per-dimension ratings, not improvised by the model, so it stays stable and explainable: you can see that, say, logical rigor is what's holding the score down, and exactly which sentence to fix.

Always labeled: measured vs AI-judged

This is the rule the whole product is built on. Numbers measured locally from your voice are shown as measured. Judgments made by AI are shown as AI judgments. And when no speech is captured, Rhetoric tells you that instead of inventing a score. Trust is the point of measuring at all.

Feedback that feeds the next run

Analysis isn't the end of the loop; it's the hinge. Specific coaching notes turn each session into a sharper draft, which you rehearse again, measure again, and watch improve. Prepare, perform, measure, improve: the report exists to make the next run better.

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Measure your pace and filler words and run the full Rhetorical Audit on your speeches with Rhetoric Pro.

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