You are in the Public Speaker app. This is the view that greets you:

Tap here.

Your first speech

To start practising, enter a few details.

Three speech templates

• Classical – for argumentation and persuasion
• Informative (or educational) – for informing
• Monroe's Motivated Sequence – presenting a need and urging action

Tap to learn more about an element.

And what if you chose
Start from scratch?

That's all!

(Although, to be honest, you will need a structure for your speech. More on that in a moment.)

Alternatively: Use a template

• COMPOSE
  
• PRACTISE
  
• EVALUATE

The menu holds important options for composing the speech.

• Goal, time, message and title
• Changing the structure
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• Save or send a printable outline

Speech structure

Deleting an element

You can delete existing elements of the speech structure when you no longer need them.

Adding an element

Tapping this button takes you to Speech elements, the catalogue from which you can pick the ones that suit you best.

Tap to learn more about an element.

You can add many elements at once. Each time, you can pick one element of a given kind.

If you need three Arguments, tap "Add an element" three times.

Save order

Tap "Save order" or to return to editing the contents.

Editing the contents of the speech

Speech element

The elements are laid out one after another, in the structure you created.

A speech element has its name, emotion, time and a description shown on this screen (and in the outline).

Tap the pencil to edit the element.

Time

Don't forget to give it in seconds.

The parts in the catalogue come with certain default values.

If you set 0 seconds for an element, we assume it takes place during a longer element. Example: a Gesture during a Story. To avoid confusing you, such an element will not show up on the prompter during practice.

Save

Tap "Save part" or to return to editing the contents.

Time taken by all the parts

Here you can see how much time all the parts take.

It is sensible to have the structure filled to about 60% of the time.

Practising the speech

Practice difficulty level

The Public Speaker app has 4 built-in difficulty levels.

Following them is recommended, but not required. Each level sets options such as the prompter, timeout cues and so on, but you can switch each of these on and off yourself.

For now, make sure you are in airplane mode.

Start recording

Recording in progress

Your recording lasts for as long as you speak, until you press the button at the bottom of the screen.

Save the recording here

You can also choose not to save it, but that option is only meant for when someone interrupts your practice.

Listening and evaluation

Marking times

When the recording reaches a given point of your speech, mark its time by tapping the stopwatch icon.

Gestures and elements lasting 0 seconds can be marked too – here all that counts is whether they occurred in the speech.

If an element did not appear in the speech, do not mark it.

Times can also be marked out of order.

Evaluation tools

When the recording reaches a given point of your speech, mark its time by tapping the stopwatch icon.

Gestures and elements lasting 0 seconds can be marked too – here all that counts is whether they occurred in the speech.

Finally, tap the
Generate report button.

This is what your report might look like.

It might also look completely different. It all depends on the times and the evaluation. The one thing we made sure of is that your report is always positive and encouraging.

Together with your own reflections, it will help you improve your speech.

And now, time to get back to the next practice.

Summary

• How do I build the structure of a speech?
• How do I fill in the structure of a speech?
• How do I prepare a recording?
• How do I listen to a recording?
• Evaluation

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