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Founder-level communication starts with hearing what you actually sound like
Record sixty seconds of ordinary speech. FounderVoice measures your pace, filler words, pauses, clarity and vocal energy, then names the one habit costing you the most and gives you a drill to fix it. No account, no card, ten recordings every day.
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- Pace
- 178wpm
- Fillers
- 11in 0:58
- Longest pause
- 0.3sec
Fix first: the pause you never take before a number.
What most speaking advice gets wrong
Being told to slow down, sound confident or stop using filler words is not coaching. It names a symptom you already know about and leaves you with no way to tell whether anything changed.
What actually moves a speaker forward is measurement.
- You rushed to 178 words per minute in the second half.
- You said like eleven times in ninety seconds, nine of them before a number.
- Your longest pause was 0.3 seconds, which is why nothing you said had room to land.
Those are fixable. Sound more confident is not.
What gets measured
Speaking pace
words / minuteWords per minute across the whole recording and inside each section, so you can see exactly where you sped up.
Filler words
count + rateEvery um, uh, like, you know and so, counted and timestamped, with the rate per minute you can actually track.
Pauses
secondsHow long you pause, and whether those pauses land where meaning breaks or in the middle of your own sentences.
Clarity
confidence %Word-level confidence, showing which words a listener is most likely to have missed entirely.
Vocal energy
pitch rangePitch range and volume variation, which is most of what people mean when they call a speaker flat or monotone.
Voice Memory
across sessionsYour own history. After three recordings the coaching stops being generic and starts comparing you to you.
How it works
Four minutes end to end, the first time you do it.
- 01
Answer one question out loud.
You get a prompt like the ones you would face in an interview, a standup or a pitch. Sixty seconds is enough.
- 02
Read the report.
Every number comes with the timestamp that produced it, so you can hear the moment rather than trust a score.
- 03
Drill the worst habit.
You get one exercise, not a list of twelve, chosen from what your own recording showed.
- 04
Record again tomorrow.
After three sessions the coaching compares you against your own history instead of an average.
Where founders use it
- Investor pitches
- The sixty-second version, and the questions after it.
- Customer demos
- Explaining the product to someone hearing it for the first time.
- Podcasts and interviews
- Long-form answers where rambling costs you the edit.
- Presentations
- Pace and pauses across ten minutes, not ten seconds.
- Standups and board updates
- Short status that lands without filler.
- Team communication
- The everyday case that decides how you are read.
Who it is for
Founders pitching investors, customers and press, where the first sixty seconds decide whether the meeting continues.
Operators and job seekers preparing for interviews, standups and board updates where delivery decides the outcome.
Engineers and analysts who know the material cold and lose the room in the first thirty seconds.
Anyone who hates their recorded voice and wants a specific reason why rather than a vague feeling.
Common questions
Is FounderVoice really free?
Yes. You get ten recordings every 24 hours at no cost, with no account, no card and no trial period. The allowance resets a day after your first recording, so you can keep practising indefinitely.
How do I communicate at a founder level?
Improvement comes from hearing what you actually do, not from generic advice. Record yourself answering a real question, then measure four things: your speaking pace in words per minute, how often filler words appear, how long your pauses run, and how clearly each word is articulated. Fix the single worst one, then record again. FounderVoice measures all four automatically and tells you which to work on first.
Do I need to change my accent to sound credible?
No. Clarity, pace and structure carry almost all of how competent you sound, and none of them require changing your accent. FounderVoice never scores you on sounding native. It measures whether you are understandable and whether you sound confident.
What is a good speaking pace?
Around 130 to 150 words per minute works for most rooms. Faster than about 170 and listeners stop retaining detail. Slower than about 110 and attention drifts. Nervous speakers usually drift fast without noticing, which is why measuring it matters more than trying to feel it.
How do I stop saying um and uh?
Fillers appear where you are thinking and afraid of silence. The fix is not removing them directly but becoming comfortable pausing instead. Record a minute, count your fillers, then record again while deliberately pausing where they appeared. Most people halve their rate within a week.
Does it work with any accent?
Yes. Transcription handles Indian, African, Australian, Singaporean and other accents well, and the analysis measures delivery rather than pronunciation against any one standard.
Start with the problem
All 22 guides- How to Stop Saying Um, Uh and LikeFiller words come from discomfort with silence, not a habit you can drop. The method that actually reduces them, with numbers to aim for and a two-week drill.
- How to Stop Talking Too FastTalking too fast is a pressure response, not a personality trait. How to find your real pace, why telling yourself to slow down fails, and the drills that work.
- How to Practise Your Startup Pitch Out LoudMost founders rehearse a pitch by rereading slides. How to practise delivery instead, the numbers investors respond to, and a rehearsal schedule that holds up.
- What to Do Before an Investor PitchA timed preparation plan for the two weeks, the day and the ten minutes before an investor meeting - what to rehearse, what to leave alone, and what to check.
- How to Prepare for Investor Q&AThe questions decide the meeting, not the pitch. How to build a real question bank, structure answers so they land, and rehearse the ones you are dreading.
- How to Practise a Presentation Out LoudWhy reading your slides is not rehearsal, how many run-throughs actually help, and a schedule for the week before a class presentation, a conference talk or a work update.
- Free AI Communication Tools, and What They Actually MeasureWhat free AI communication tools measure, where the free tier usually stops, and how to tell a tool that hands you evidence from one that hands you a score.
- Speaking Skills in CommunicationWhat speaking skills actually are, the six that carry most of the weight, and how to measure each one on a recording of your own voice instead of guessing.
Or start with the number
All 6 free tools- Free Filler Word CounterFiller count, filler rate per minute, and the timestamp behind each one
- Speaking Pace Test: Your Words Per MinuteWords per minute overall and per section, with the point where the pace changed
- AI Pitch Practice for FoundersAll five delivery numbers, plus practice rounds against a sceptical counterpart
- Free AI Communication CoachAll five delivery numbers, with the timestamp behind each one
- Presentation Practice: Rehearse Out Loud, FreeLength and pace against your slot, plus fillers, pauses and clarity
- Public Speaking Practice, Online and FreePace, fillers, pauses, clarity and vocal energy, with timestamps
One minute of speech is enough to start
You will know your pace, your filler rate and the one habit to fix before you finish reading this page.