Exercise: Record Your Voice
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Exercise: Record Your Voice
Most AI voice training starts with written content analysis. But here’s what the process of developing the Signal Over Noise voice revealed: your natural speaking patterns are usually more authentic than your formal writing.
When you’re explaining your business in person, you instinctively use the right level of detail, emphasise what actually matters, skip the corporate buzzwords, and connect ideas the way you naturally think.
That’s the voice we need to capture. This exercise does it across three sessions.
Session 1: Explain Your Business (5 minutes)
Set your phone to record and explain your business like you’re talking to someone at a coffee shop. Don’t script it — just talk naturally about what problem you solve, who you help, and what makes your approach different.
Pretend you’re explaining to a smart friend who’s never heard of your industry. This forces you to skip jargon and use your natural explanation style.
Don’t overthink this. We’re not looking for perfection — we’re capturing authenticity.
Session 2: Tell a Problem-Solving Story (15 minutes)
Record yourself telling the story of a recent client challenge and how you solved it. Include how the problem first appeared, your diagnostic process, the solution you recommended and why, any implementation challenges, and the results.
Choose a specific example (anonymise client details). Real stories reveal your natural problem-solving narrative style and how you position expertise without sounding arrogant. Tell it like you would to a colleague over lunch — don’t perform, just talk.
What we’re capturing: how you establish credibility naturally, your way of explaining complex solutions, the examples and metaphors you instinctively reach for, and how you handle uncertainty in your storytelling.
Session 3: Find Your Written Voice DNA (10 minutes)
While you’re capturing your natural speaking patterns, there’s another voice source sitting in your email outbox, LinkedIn posts, and old proposals: your best written content.
Not the stuff you published because you had to — the pieces that felt authentically you. The email that generated three referrals. The LinkedIn post people actually shared. The proposal that won against cheaper competitors.
Find your best 5-7 pieces. Look for high-response emails (client communications that led to projects, prospect outreach that generated calls), engaging social content (posts with unusually high comments or shares, content where people said “this is so you”), and successful business documents (proposals that won competitive situations, case studies clients loved).
Quality over recency. Include older pieces if they represent your voice well. Sometimes your best voice emerges under pressure or when you’re passionate about a topic.
What to ignore: generic website copy, heavily edited collaborative content, anything that was “written by committee,” content you’re not proud of.
What to Do With These
Save the recordings. We’ll use them in Step 2 — paste transcripts directly into the analysis prompt alongside your written samples.
The content you’re most nervous about sharing (because it feels “too much like you”) is usually what people forward most. Your authentic voice often hides in the content that feels slightly risky to put out there.