Tempo
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Public speaking coach for iPhone & Apple Watch
Tempo listens while you present, follows your pace live, and gives you a quiet nudge the moment you start to rush. Afterwards, it shows you every word.
Tempo is
listening.
Speak naturally. You will get a nudge when you are going a little too fast.
While you speak
The nudge
Tempo watches for two things: short bursts where the words pile up, and an overall pace that keeps creeping higher. When either happens, you feel it right away and can slow down before the room notices.
Apple Watch
Leave the phone on the lectern. Your watch taps differently for a burst, for running fast, and for dragging, and you can start or stop from your wrist.
Rehearsal
Paste your script and set a target. Tempo follows you word by word and tells you whether you are on track to finish when you planned.
Replay
Scrub through the talk and hear it again. Green was right, orange was a bit fast, red is where you lost them. Pauses are marked too.
Analysis
Bursts, time in the green zone, filler words, average pace. A clear verdict after each session, and trends over the last twelve weeks.
Practice
A daily warm-up for your voice, then drills for the things that make a speaker easy to listen to: pace, pauses, volume and melody. Each one is scored live from your microphone.
Today's warm-up
The details
Counts the ums, uhs and “you know”s, straight from the audio. English for now.
An optional nudge when you drag. Only while you are talking, never during a pause.
See if one slipped out, so it does not happen on stage.
Twelve weeks of sessions, so you can see the habit change.
Pace and timer on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.
Naturally slow, neutral or fast. Tempo adapts its thresholds to you.
Works in every language Apple's speech recognition supports.
Your sessions follow you across devices through your own iCloud.
Privacy
No account and no Tempo servers. Speech is recognized by Apple's speech framework, on your iPhone wherever your language allows it. Transcripts sync through your private iCloud, and recordings never leave the device. You can switch both off.
Also on Mac
Tempo for Mac sits beside Zoom, Teams, Meet, FaceTime or anything else that uses your microphone, and nudges you when you speed up in a meeting.
Get Tempo for Mac →Why Tempo
This project started when I realized I often spoke too quickly in meetings and presentations, and only noticed after they ended.
When you are presenting, there is no room left in your head to watch your own pace. Tempo does that part for you and gives you a reminder in the moment, so you can adjust while it still counts.
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Tempo is free to download and try. Premium unlocks sessions of any length.
Pick a speech profile and Tempo shifts its thresholds to your natural speed, so you are only nudged when you are fast for you.
Pace detection works in every language supported by Apple's speech recognition, which covers dozens of languages and regions. Filler word detection is English only for now.
No. The iPhone nudges you with sound, vibration and notifications. The watch simply makes it more discreet.
Yes. Tempo has no account and no servers of its own. Transcripts live in your private iCloud and audio recordings stay on your device.