Get good at speaking about
things you didn't choose.
Rostrum draws you a topic, you talk about it for a few minutes, and it tells you the truth about how you said it. A daily extempore rep for the moment you can't script.
No sign-up to start. Speak first — save your progress later.
The impromptu
A topic is drawn, the microphone opens, and you think out loud for ninety seconds. Nothing to prepare.
With a little prep
A three-thousand-word briefing sized for ten minutes at speed, then four minutes on your feet.
Opens your microphone — five free rounds a day, no sign-up.
You spoke. Here's the truth.
Every word you say is written down. The numbers are measured from the timings, not guessed at. Then the coach takes a sentence you actually said and hands it back sharper. This is a real one, untouched:
“today i stand to discuss up about the dedicated fred corridor and the model share that will not shift”
“Today, I will argue that dedicated freight corridors will catalyse a substantial shift in rail's modal share.”
- Pace
- 99wpm
- Filler
- 5
- Stalls
- 5
- Score
- 7/10
It's not a feeling. It's a number that moves.
The same topic, the same rubric, session after session. One speaker's first nine rounds climbed from a 2 to a 7 — and can prove it with a graph, not a vibe.
You don't pick. Rostrum draws.
Choosing your own topic is how you quietly avoid the ones you're weak at. So you don't choose — a topic is dealt to you from three hundred, on Indian policy and on the arguments underneath everything. See all three hundred.
- The uses of boredom
- Why India's manufacturing share of GDP refuses to rise
- Is silence agreement
- The UPI paradox: everyone uses it, nobody earns from it
- What a queue reveals about a society
- Should luck be taxed
How a round goes.
- A topic is drawn. Never one you have spoken on before, never one you picked.
- You read, or you don't. The prepared round gives you a briefing sized for ten minutes; the impromptu gives you the topic and ninety seconds.
- You speak, and it counts. The microphone opens, you talk, and every word is transcribed.
- It tells you the truth. A score, a quote from you behind every criticism, and how today compares with the last time.
Yours, and only yours.
- No audio is ever stored. Your voice is transcribed and discarded in the same breath. There is no recording to leak, because there is none.
- Anonymous by default. No account to start — no name, no email, nothing — until you choose to sign in and keep your progress.
- Delete everything, any time. One button wipes every round, every number, and the id itself. It is your data, and leaving is a click.
Pick a length.
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