Conversational

{
  "$schema": "https://openpresentation.org/schema/opf-tone/v1",
  "id": "conversational",
  "name": "Conversational",
  "summary": "Direct, dialog-style voice for podcasts, fireside chats, and small-group reviews.",
  "description": "Sound like one half of a real conversation. Ask questions on the slide and answer them; keep paragraphs short; lean into examples over abstractions. Useful when the deck is meant to support a discussion rather than to lecture.",
  "voiceCues": [
    "Ask a question on the slide, then answer it on the next.",
    "Use second person — speak to the room, not at it.",
    "Lean on stories and concrete examples over abstract framing.",
    "Keep each idea to one short paragraph; let the dialog do the rest."
  ],
  "avoid": [
    "Lecture-style monologue across many bullets.",
    "Hedge-laden academic phrasing.",
    "Stuffing slides — leave room for the discussion.",
    "Inside-baseball references the room may not share."
  ],
  "samplePhrases": [
    "Why now? Two things changed in the last six months.",
    "Here's the part that surprised us — and what we did about it.",
    "If you take one thing from this section, take this."
  ],
  "recommendedNarratives": [
    "all-hands",
    "company-intro",
    "weekly-progress",
    "performance-review"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "dialog",
    "podcast",
    "discussion"
  ]
}