How to practice speaking, with numbers instead of nerves.
Advice about speaking is usually a feeling: be confident, slow down, make eye contact. The trouble is that none of those can be checked, so a practice session ends with an impression rather than a change. These four guides are about the things a camera and a microphone can actually count — pace, filler words, where your head is pointed, how still you stand — and what to do about each one.
They are written by the people who built the measurement, and every number in them is a number the product uses. Where something cannot be measured, the guide says so instead of inventing an answer.
Why a recording beats a rehearsal
A rehearsal feels like practice because it is effortful, but without a record there is nothing to compare. You cannot hear that your pace rose in the second half, or that you said "sort of" eleven times, because you were busy saying it. One recorded minute turns all of that into a fact you can look at, and a second recorded minute turns it into a change you can check.
That is the whole method: record something short, look at one number, change one thing, record again. Podivm exists to do the counting and to keep both takes side by side, but the method works with a phone camera and a notepad if you would rather count yourself.
Start with the take, not the theory
Forty-five seconds, one question, six measured bars. The take stays in the tab, and the first cycle is free.
Start a 45-second take