AI Speech Writer - Keynotes, Pitches & Talks
Write compelling speeches
Overview
Generate professional speeches for product launches, investor pitches, conference keynotes, team events, and ceremonial occasions in under 5 minutes. This template structures your core message into a compelling narrative with rhetorical devices, emotional beats, and actionable conclusions that audiences remember.
Use Cases
- Launch a product at industry conference with 300+ attendees - Generate a 15-minute keynote that hooks investors and customers
- Pitch Series A funding to venture capital partners - Write a 10-minute speech balancing data-driven traction with visionary narrative
- Deliver quarterly all-hands to 500-person engineering team - Create motivational addresses that maintain morale during rapid scaling
- Write wedding toast or retirement speech in 30 minutes - Craft ceremonial speeches blending humor, emotion, and memorable quotes
- Prepare TEDx talk or university commencement address - Structure 18-minute presentations with stories that illustrate abstract concepts
- Generate sales kickoff speech for 200-person revenue team - Build persuasive narratives that align team behavior with annual targets
Benefits
This template turns speech writing from a multi-day project into a 5-minute task:
- Save 8+ hours per major speech - Skip the blank page paralysis and structural rewrites that consume entire weekends
- Generate 3-5 speech variations in under 15 minutes - Test different emotional arcs and messaging strategies before committing to one
- Maintain consistent brand voice across 10+ company speakers - Ensure your CEO, VP Sales, and Head of Product all sound aligned at industry events
- Reduce dependency on expensive speechwriters - Handle 80% of speaking engagements in-house, reserving external help for flagship events
- Hit precise time constraints without manual trimming - Specify duration upfront rather than cutting a 20-minute draft down to 10 minutes afterward
How to Write Effective Speeches with AI
Most people struggle with speech structure. You know what you want to say, but translating ideas into a narrative arc with emotional peaks takes skill. This template handles the architecture so you focus on message clarity.
The template works best when you invest time upfront clarifying your core message. Vague inputs like “talk about our product” produce generic output. Specific inputs like “convince enterprise CTOs that our API reduces integration time from 6 weeks to 3 days” give the AI clear direction.
Speech duration matters more than you think. A 10-minute speech needs one core message with three supporting points. A 20-minute speech can handle two core messages with five supporting points total. Trying to cram fifteen ideas into ten minutes creates a rambling mess that audiences forget.
Tone selection shapes everything. “Inspirational” speeches use vision, metaphor, and emotional crescendos. “Informative” speeches prioritize data, examples, and practical takeaways. “Persuasive” speeches build logical arguments with evidence and urgency. “Ceremonial” speeches balance humor, gratitude, and tradition. Pick the wrong tone and your content lands flat even if the words are technically correct.
The template includes rhetorical devices, memorable quotes, and emotional moments because speeches aren’t essays read aloud. People remember how you made them feel, not your bullet points. A well-placed story about a customer’s success or a team member’s breakthrough creates anchor points that stick in memory.
Common Mistakes When Writing Speeches
Writing for readers instead of listeners - Speeches need shorter sentences, simpler vocabulary, and more repetition than written content. If your audience can’t follow on first listen, your structure is too complex.
Skipping the opening hook - You have 30 seconds to earn attention. Starting with “Today I want to talk about…” wastes that window. Open with a provocative question, surprising statistic, or vivid story that makes people lean forward.
Burying your main message - Your audience should know your core argument within the first 90 seconds. If you’re still setting context at the 5-minute mark, you’ve lost them.
Using slides as a script - Slides support your speech, they don’t replace it. If you’re reading bullet points verbatim, you’re giving a lecture, not a speech. The template generates spoken-word content that stands alone.
Ignoring time constraints until the end - Cutting a finished speech to fit time limits destroys narrative flow. Set duration upfront and let the template calibrate density accordingly.
Forgetting to include a call-to-action - Speeches should drive behavior. “Remember this concept” is weak. “Join the beta by Friday” or “Email your team this framework today” gives audiences concrete next steps.
Template
Write a speech for:
Occasion: {{occasion}}
Speaker: {{speaker}}
Audience: {{audience}}
Duration: {{duration}} minutes
Main message:
{{message}}
Key points:
{{keyPoints}}
Include:
- Opening hook
- Introduction
- 3-5 main points
- Stories/examples
- Rhetorical devices
- Memorable quotes
- Emotional moments
- Strong conclusion
- Call-to-action
Tone: {{tone}}
Properties
- occasion: Single-line Text
- speaker: Single-line Text
- audience: Single-line Text
- duration: Single-line Text (default:
10) - message: Multi-line Text
- keyPoints: Multi-line Text
- tone: Single Selection (default:
Inspirational)- Options: Inspirational, Informative, Persuasive, Ceremonial
Example Output
Here’s a speech generated using this template for a product launch event:
Input:
- Occasion: Product launch event
- Speaker: CEO
- Audience: Potential investors and partners
- Duration: 10 minutes
- Main message: Introducing our revolutionary AI-powered productivity tool that saves teams 15+ hours per week
- Key points: Market fragmentation problem, unified solution, early customer results, long-term vision
- Tone: Inspirational
Output excerpt (first 300 words):
How much time did you spend this week rewriting the same email? Reformatting the same report? Copying and pasting the same instructions to your team?
Last Tuesday, I watched one of our engineers spend 47 minutes doing something that should have taken 3. Not because he lacked skill. Not because he lacked tools. But because his tools didn’t talk to each other, and every AI prompt he’d perfected over months lived scattered across browser tabs, Slack threads, and sticky notes.
That 47 minutes? Multiply it by every knowledge worker in your organization. Every week. Every month. That’s the hidden tax we’ve all been paying in the age of AI.
Today, we’re abolishing that tax.
I’m here to introduce you to something we’ve spent two years building in stealth mode, something that will fundamentally change how teams work with artificial intelligence.
But first, let me tell you what we’re not.
We’re not another chatbot wrapper. We’re not another productivity app promising to revolutionize your workflow with seventeen new tabs and five new logins. The world doesn’t need more fragmentation.
What the world needs is unification. What the world needs is a single source of truth for the AI-powered work your teams do every single day.
The complete output includes 3-5 main points with supporting evidence, emotional story beats, rhetorical questions, and a strong call-to-action. Total generation time: 8 seconds.
Frequently Used With
These templates pair naturally with speech preparation workflows:
- Video Script - Adapt your speech for video recording or virtual presentations
- Executive Summary - Create one-page handouts that summarize your speech for attendees
- Press Release - Generate accompanying press materials when speeches announce new products or company milestones