Best Public Speaking Exercises

Public speaking exercises to build your confidence and improve your communication skills. Exercises on eye contact, impromptu speaking, storytelling, measuring your pace, and more.

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Conference Room

Conference Room

Deliver a presentation to around 100 people in this popular training environment.
TEDx Theatre

TEDx Styled Theatre

This TEDx-styled room allows you to practice for upcoming presentations at large venues.
Learning a Speech

Learning a Speech

This exercise helps you learn your speech, starting with the main points and then the sub-points.
Virtual Presentation

Online Presentations

Practice how to deliver successful video-conferencing presentations on Zoom, WebEx, Teams, and more.
Impromptu Speech Training

Impromptu Speech Training

Practice thinking on your feet by talking about a wide range of random images.
Elevator pitch

Elevator Pitch

Practice pitching yourself, your company, or your product in two different elevator scenes.
Eye contact training

Eye Contact Training

Improve your eye contact and review your performance with gamification and heatmaps.
Sound and visual distractions

Sound and Visual Distractions

Learn how to deal with sound and visual distractions, including mobiles phones ringing and lighting.

Lecture hall

Lecture Hall

Deliver a speech in this large lecture hall. Load slides and use the speech analysis feature to track progress.
Vocal Exercises

Vocal Exercises

A strength training workout to warm up your voice and develop your pitch, pace, pause, and projection.
Meeting Room

Meeting Room

Practice giving a speech in this small meeting room, where you can load in your own slides to practice with.
Literary Techniques

Literary Techniques

Learn about key literary techniques you can use in your next speech or presentation.

Words to Time Converter

Calculate Speech Length

Measure how long it will take to deliver your speech or presentation, based on the word count.
Speaking at Different Paces

Speaking at Different Paces

Practice reading a transcript aloud at different paces to better understand how different speeds sound.
Creating Analogies

Creating Analogies

An exercise to train your lateral thinking skills under pressure by completing analogies.
Speaking Pitch

Pitch Variation for a Speech

Measure the pitch variation of your voice when giving a speech to better engage the audience.

Impromptu Storytelling

Impromptu Storytelling

Practice your storytelling by talking about a given topic and incorporating new words as you go.
Table Topics

Table Topics

Practice organizing your thoughts by answering questions under time pressure (game by Toastmasters).
Speaking Pace

Measure your Speaking Pace

Read the transcript or deliver your own speech to see a graph of how your pace varies over time.

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