Your private communication coach on iPhone.

Today’s drill

A rotating daily workout card with streak tracking.

• Rotating catalog of drills across 60-second explain, 90-second persuasive, 120-second storytelling, and 90-second executive summary formats.
• The same drill is shown all day; it rotates at midnight to the next item in the cycle.
• Card shows drill kind, title, prompt preview, Start drill, and a Done checkmark after you complete it today.
• Streak counts consecutive calendar days with at least one completed drill (flame icon + day count).
• Tap the card for full prompt text, then start recording with the drill preloaded.

Recent sessions

• Up to five latest sessions with topic (or “Practice session”), date/time, and Clarity score when available.
• Retry badge when a session is a repeat attempt on the same scenario or topic.
• Empty state guides you to start practice; footer note points to History when you have more than five sessions.

Recording screen

• Idle — optional topic; scenario/drill/interview prompt card when launched from those flows.
• Recording — large M:SS timer; tap stop when finished.
• Review — Finish & save or discard and re-record. Recordings under 0.1 seconds are rejected as too short.
• Soft timer for scenarios, drills, and interview: suggested length vs elapsed; gentle “past suggested time” hint (not a hard cutoff).
• Microphone permission errors offer Open Settings.

After you save (on-device pipeline)

Analysis runs in the background while you review feedback. You’ll see Analyzing your take on the feedback and session screens until processing completes.

1. Transcription — speech-to-text with timed segments (Apple Speech on device; simulator uses a dev stub).
2. Filler detection — token and phrase fillers with positions for highlighting.
3. Pace analysis — words per minute, long pauses, rushed sections, per-segment timing.
4. Communication scoring — six dimensions with explainable breakdown JSON.
5. Coaching engine — up to five rule-based insight cards by category.
6. Voice energy — loudness envelope when audio is still available.
7. Widget snapshot — streak, confidence trend, and today’s drill status refresh for Home Screen widgets.

Audio retention (About → Privacy & storage)

• Default: keep recording on device until you delete the session—enables Play recording, timeline sync, and voice energy.
• Optional: delete audio after successful analysis; transcript, metrics, and coaching remain.

Score rings

• Animated score rings for Clarity, Confidence, Pace, Structure, and Conciseness (0–100).
• Overall score headline averages the five dimensions when metrics are ready.
• Rings animate in with spring motion; haptic feedback when scores first appear.

Transcript highlights

• Fillers highlighted in orange (um, uh, like, you know, kind of, sort of, and more).
• Rushed sections underlined in the brand accent color.
• Long pauses marked inline when detected between segments.
• Legend explains each highlight type for quick scanning.

Actions on the feedback screen

• Practice again — start a linked retry with the same topic or scenario.
• Compare to previous — full attempt comparison when available.
• Playback, timeline & more — opens the complete session detail view.
• Done dismisses; Full session in the toolbar for power users.
• While analysis runs, the processing card appears until scores and coaching are ready.

Speech timeline

• Bar chart of segment pace (WPM) with markers for filler-heavy segments, rushed delivery, and long pauses.
• Legend: Pace · Fillers · Long pause. Available on session detail and inside Playback.

Voice energy

• Loudness envelope chart with an overall energy score 0–100.
• Tip when delivery is relatively flat: add emphasis on key points.

Playback

• Play recording when audio was retained.
• Play/pause, scrubber, speeds 0.75× · 1× · 1.25× · 1.5×.
• Synced speech timeline and voice energy charts; scrollable segment list—tap a segment to seek. Segments with fillers show a Fillers badge.

Transcript

• Full transcript with filler words highlighted (orange) for quick scanning.
• Selectable text; VoiceOver announces filler count.
• Rewrite button opens on-device style transforms (see Rewrite).
• Pending and error states explain when transcription is in progress or failed.

Metric cards

• Clarity — how easy your message is to follow (rate, fillers, pause structure).
• Confidence — delivery presence (filler control, WPM steadiness, composure, strong opening).
• Structure — idea flow and chunking across timed segments.
• Conciseness — directness vs rambling and rushed sections.
• Pacing — rhythm, pauses, and speed changes.
• Fillers — count, % of words, and WPM; warning styling when rate exceeds 8%.

Why these scores?

Opens Score breakdown: per-dimension score, one-line summary, and weighted factors so feedback is explainable—not a black box.

Filler detection (detail)

• Token fillers: um, uh, like, erm, ah, er, basically, literally, actually.
• Phrase fillers: you know, kind of, sort of.
• Outputs: count, percentage of words, per minute, and character ranges for UI highlighting and timeline flags.

• Search topic filters by keyword in the topic field.
• Same row layout as Home: topic, timestamp, clarity score, Retry n badge.
• Tap any row for the full session detail (pushed navigation, not a sheet).
• Empty and no-results states with clear guidance.

• On launch, Talk Like uses bundled scenarios and interview questions, then can refresh from talksinc.com when the device is online.
• Job-role mock interview packs (software engineering, sales, healthcare, and more) appear when those bundles download successfully.
• No Talk Like account is required. Bundled content still works offline.

• Search scenarios and category chips: All, Interviews, Meetings, Presentations, Leadership, Difficult conversations.
• Difficulty row: filter by Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced.
• Each scenario: title, category, full prompt, three numbered structure hints, and a difficulty badge.
• Examples include behavioral interview answers, weekly team updates, two-minute pitches, constructive feedback, and pushing back on scope.
• Start practice opens recording with the prompt card visible and topic prefilled.

• When the online library is available, pick a job role (for example Software Engineering, Product Management, Sales, Data Science) and get a random practice question for that role.
• If job-role packs are not loaded, the app falls back to Behavioral (STAR / experience), Leadership (teams, influence), and Product (prioritization, metrics).
• Large question bank with a random pick each time; New question cycles another.
• Interview question card + suggested answer length (soft guide only).
• Record answer → save → Your feedback with score rings and coaching, then optional full session.
• Then Another question or Done.

• Drills rotate by calendar day; completion marks today’s card with a checkmark.
• Streak integrates with Insights and the Speaking streak widget.
• Deep link talklike://daily-drill and Siri phrase “Start today’s drill in Talk Like” jump straight into recording.

• From session transcript, choose a style: Executive, Concise, Confident, or Diplomatic.
• Classic templates generate locally from your words. Enhanced mode uses on-device Apple Intelligence on supported devices when On-device AI coaching is on in About.
• If Cloud scoring is on, Talk Like can also ask your AI provider once per session for all four styles and save them on the session. Switching styles does not call the API again.
• Copy to clipboard for use in notes, email drafts, or rehearsal. Rewrites are starting points, not final scripts.

• Practice again links the new session as the next attempt (attempt index increments).
• Compare to previous shows metric deltas when both sessions have scores (also surfaced on the feedback screen as a comparison strip).
• Retry n badges on Home and History rows for quick scanning.

Three onboarding pages

1. Welcome — record, get clarity-style feedback, build history.
2. How it works — Practice paths; on-device privacy; scenarios & drills; reflect with coaching and Insights.
3. Privacy & terms — links to this site’s Privacy and Terms pages.

Skip or advance with Next; final page Get started.

About tab

• App version and links to Privacy policy, Terms of use, and this website.
• Help & Learn — in-app guides, FAQ, score glossary, sample session, and What’s New.
• Delete audio after analysis toggle with explanation of local-only processing.
• On-device AI coaching — optional Apple Intelligence for a personalized coach note and richer rewrites on supported devices. Classic templates remain the fallback. Stays on your iPhone; separate from Cloud scoring.
• Cloud scoring (optional) — paste your own OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini API key for confidence scoring. Off until you save a key and accept the privacy notice. When on, Rewrite can also ask your provider once per session for all four styles. See the Cloud scoring guide.
• How scoring works — technical on-device scoring transparency, including the optional cloud overlay when you enable it.

• Path: About → Cloud scoring (optional) → Face ID → pick provider → paste secret API key → Test → Save → accept the privacy notice → enable the toggle.
• Sent: that session’s transcript text and numeric metrics for confidence scoring. Opening Rewrite while Cloud scoring is on can send the same transcript once for all four styles. Never sent: the audio file, other sessions, or your Apple ID. Talks Inc servers do not receive the transcript.
• Fallback: offline, Face ID cancelled, Skip, a rejected key, or a short transcript keeps on-device scores.
• Full setup, lost-phone revoke steps, and vendor privacy links: Cloud scoring guide. Also see Privacy and Terms.