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