VoiceReady — Speaking practice that hears the signal

00 // PRODUCT — VOICE & COACHING

Practice speaking against the signal, not the transcript.

VoiceReady is a speaking-practice product that listens to how you actually sound — the ums and likes, the tremor under pressure, talking too fast, the hedging qualifiers that quietly undercut a point — and returns vocal-level feedback you can act on.

Most speaking coaches read your words. VoiceReady measures your delivery. The difference is the whole product.

ACOUSTIC ANALYSISSOLO / LIVE-CALL / COACHINGTEAM-READY

FIG. SIGNAL_NOT_TRANSCRIPT

REF: VOICEREADY-00 Waveform decomposed into vocal features: filler rate, pitch tremor, pace, hedging

01 // The gap

A transcript cannot hear you.

The things that make someone sound unprepared or unconfident are acoustic. The filler words. The tremor that shows up under pressure. The pace that runs away. The qualifier that hedges a strong point into a weak one. None of that is in the text.

Tools that transcribe and comment on your words are reading the wrong layer. The words can be flawless while the delivery falls apart. VoiceReady works on the layer that actually carries the impression.

REF: VOICEREADY-01

// WHO IT IS FOR

Working adults with a high-stakes conversation coming up.

Candidates rehearsing for interviews
Sales reps who live on calls
Anyone presenting to a room or a board
Teams that want the trend, not a transcript audit

SEGMENT: HORIZONTAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT // INDIVIDUALS + TEAMS

02 // How it works

Three modes, one acoustic engine.

VoiceReady meets you where the speaking actually happens — alone with a prompt, inside a live call, or in conversation with a responsive partner. Every mode feeds the same signal-processing core.

MODE 01

mic

Solo practice

Record yourself against a prompt or scenario and get structured feedback on delivery. The fast, private loop for reps before the real thing.

MODE 02

groups

Live-call analysis

A meeting bot joins a video call, captures clean per-speaker audio, and analyzes your speaking afterwards — feedback on real conversations, not rehearsals.

MODE 03

forum

Interactive coaching

Real-time AI voice role-play. Rehearse the actual conversation against a responsive partner that pushes back, so the practice resembles the moment.

03 // The hard part

REF: VOICEREADY-02

// DIFFERENTIATOR_01

Real acoustic analysis via a phonetics sidecar.

A dedicated phonetics sidecar (Praat / parselmouth class) extracts genuine vocal features from the audio signal — filler-word rate, pitch tremor, pacing, hedging. This is signal processing, not a language model guessing from a transcript. It is the headline capability, and it is why the feedback is measurable rather than impressionistic.

KNOW WHICH KNOB TO TURN: FILLER · TREMOR · PACE · HEDGING

REF: VOICEREADY-03

// DIFFERENTIATOR_02

Team metrics that never leak the individual.

Teams get their own subdomain, shared scenario libraries, and aggregate metrics across members — without exposing individual transcripts. A manager sees the team trend, not a surveillance feed of who said what. The privacy property is designed in, not bolted on, because trust is what makes people practice honestly.

MULTI-TENANT // AGGREGATE SIGNAL // NO INDIVIDUAL TRANSCRIPTS

Infrastructure underneath the feedback.

Meeting-bot capture: a bot into a live call, clean per-speaker audio, async processing
Best-in-class voice vendors behind swappable interfaces — STT, TTS, real-time, capture
Provider abstraction keeps the lab on the best option as voice quality moves
Background jobs + object storage for audio; consent and participant privacy handled with care

FIG. SWAPPABLE_VOICE_PROVIDERS

REF: VOICEREADY-04 Swappable provider interfaces: speech-to-text, text-to-speech, real-time, capture behind one abstraction

04 // Status & stack

In active build.

VoiceReady is the most ambitious build in the portfolio and is well into a phased build queue. The acoustic core, the three modes, and the multi-tenant privacy model are designed together rather than retrofitted.

It is a horizontal professional-development product — sales, interviewing, presentation skills — sold to individuals and to teams.

STATUS: IN ACTIVE BUILDINDIVIDUALS + TEAMS

SPEC_ID: VOICEREADY-STACK

// SECTION — STACK

RUNTIME: NEXT.JS // POSTGRESQL + DRIZZLE // BETTER AUTH

ACOUSTIC: PRAAT / PARSELMOUTH PYTHON SIDECAR

VOICE: STT · TTS · REALTIME · MEETING-CAPTURE BEHIND SWAPPABLE INTERFACES

OPS: BACKGROUND JOBS · OBJECT STORAGE · ERROR MONITORING · BILLING