Do your statements land?
Read six short statements out loud. See which ones finished down and sounded decided, and which floated up like a question. Then say the one sentence you really need to land.
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Six statements, out loud
You’ll see them when you start. Read each one as if you mean it, with a pause between. About 20 seconds.
- I’ve led this project for two years.
- Our price is forty-two thousand.
- …and four more.
Measured on your device. Nothing is recorded or uploaded.
What “landing” means
The end of a sentence carries a signal. When your pitch falls on the last word, the sentence sounds finished. When it rises, it can sound like a question, or like more is coming. This tool listens to the last stretch of each phrase and measures the move in semitones: a fall of one or more counts as landed, a rise of one or more as rose, anything in between as level.
Is uptalk bad?
Not always, and the research is more careful than the headlines. In lab studies, listeners heard rising endings both as uncertainty and as “there’s more to come”, and it was drawn-out, hesitant rises that made speakers sound unsure (Tomlinson & Fox Tree, Cognition, 2011). Rises are right for questions, lists and checking in. The problem is the sentence you need people to accept: your number, your deadline, your recommendation. Say that one down.
How to land a sentence
Say the important word a little higher, then let the last word drop, as if you’re setting something down on a table. Stop. Don’t fill the silence after it. The 30-day voice foundations track has a landing drill that measures every ending, and the salary script builder writes the sentence with your number in it.