Noam Shemla

CPO at Exprea

Articles

  1. Online Public Speaking Clubs: Count Your Speaking Minutes
  2. Poised Is Shutting Down: What to Use Instead
  3. What 693 Practice Recordings Tell Us About How People Speak
  4. AI Speech Coach or Toastmasters? What Each One Is Good For
  5. Exprea vs Yoodli: Which One Fits How You Want to Practise?
  6. Yoodli Alternatives: AI Speech Coach Apps Compared (2026)
  7. Speaking Fear and Dropping Out: The Four-Year Study of Who Left University
  8. Communication Apprehension and Grades: Why Students Who Fear Speaking Earn Less, and Where They Don’t
  9. The Pitch and the Investor: How Delivery Shapes Business Angels’ Decisions, Whether They Admit It or Not
  10. The Power of Voice: What Executives’ Voices on Earnings Calls Revealed, and Why the Method Is Disputed
  11. Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Fear of Public Speaking: A Randomised Trial and What Lasted
  12. The 36 Questions: How 45 Minutes of Escalating Talk Made Strangers Close
  13. The Surprising Power of Weak Ties: Why Small Conversations With Acquaintances Make Better Days
  14. Calmer Each Time: How Repeated Speaking Lowers Public Speaking Anxiety
  15. Language Style Matching: How the Smallest Words Predict Who Dates and Who Stays Together
  16. Why Dominant People Get Influence: Speaking First Reads as Competence, Even When It Isn’t
  17. Visual and Vocal Interview Cues: How Your Voice in a Job Interview Predicts the Verdict and the Job
  18. Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: The 148-Study Meta-Analysis Behind “Loneliness Is Like Smoking”
  19. Voice Characteristics and Selling Effectiveness: What Salespeople’s Voices Reveal About Who Sells More
  20. Making the Connection: What 947 Recorded Speed Dates Reveal About Why People Click
  21. Who Asks and Who Receives: What Negotiating Your Starting Salary Is Worth
  22. Self-Talk by Name: How Talking to Yourself as “You” Helps Before a Speech
  23. Speed of Speech and Persuasion: Why Faster Speakers Sound More Credible
  24. Seven Design Principles for Presentation Skills: What 52 Studies Say Makes Speakers Improve
  25. It Doesn’t Hurt to Ask: Why Follow-Up Questions Make People Like You
  26. Get Excited: Why Saying “I Am Excited” Beats “Calm Down” Before a Speech, and What the Replication Found
  27. Not a Flaw: Is Speaking Anxiety Inborn? Beatty, McCroskey & Heisel (1998)
  28. Mistakenly Seeking Solitude: Why Talking to Strangers Is Better Than We Expect
  29. The Liking Gap: After a Conversation, People Like You More Than You Think
  30. Public Speaking, the Most Common Social Fear: What a National Survey of 9,282 Adults Found
  31. Self-Explanation: Why Explaining Out Loud Makes You Understand More Deeply
  32. Eavesdropping on Happiness: Deep Conversations, Small Talk and Well-Being
  33. Vision, Delivery and Results: What Makes a Leader Seem Charismatic, in Eight Versions of One Speech
  34. Can Charisma Be Taught? The Twelve Tactics That Made Managers and Students More Charismatic
  35. The Babble Hypothesis: Does the Person Who Talks Most Become the Leader?
  36. First Offers as Anchors: Why the Opening Number Sets the Price, and How to Break Its Pull
  37. How the Voice Persuades: Why the Same Words Win When They Sound Confident
  38. You Look Calm: The Illusion of Transparency and Speech Anxiety
  39. Before He Says Why
  40. The Pauses That Weren’t His
  41. The Dream Is Not the Peak
  42. The Sentence the Machine Missed
  43. 271 Words, No Recording
  44. Where Our Instrument Broke
  45. What We Measure in a Talk (and What We Don’t)
  46. Filler Words Are Not the Same Word in Every Language
  47. What Ninety Years of Toastmasters Data Gets Right About Feedback
  48. Ebbinghaus’s Forgetting Curve, and Why One Mention Isn’t Enough
  49. What a Good Listener Does, According to the Research
  50. Your Nerves Are Less Visible Than They Feel: the Research on Why
  51. How Exprea Scores a Speaker
  52. What is speaking rate?
  53. What is filler rate?
  54. What is a pause?
  55. What is pitch variation?
  56. What is vocal energy?
  57. What is hedging rate?
  58. Clarity: the axis with a formula
  59. Why pace is not an axis
  60. Tonality: measured, then judged
  61. Structure: the axis with no instrument
  62. Energy: our weakest number
  63. Intellect: counting the words you did not repeat
  64. It Was Never the Speaker