Product Labs🔬: Decoding Yoodli AI

No need to practice those presentations and board room pitches in the shower mirror any more, AI is here to save the day. Now you can just Yoodle your way into a meeting and deliver the pitch-perfect pitch (yes, pun intended 😂) with Yoodli AI!

What’s in it for you?

Yoodli AI is an AI-powered speech coach that provides real-time and post-call feedback to improve communication skills or exactly as Yoodli AI’s LinkedIn page says it - “think Grammarly but for speech”!

Yoodli AI played a stroke of genius by associating itself with Grammarly to create a link in the user’s mind and break into a new segment, thereby leveraging Familiarity Bias.

Yoodli has quite an interesting mixed bag of features, the main one being an AI speech coach.

There are two interesting ways to access it:

1. Practice: There are 4 modes in Practice

   • Roleplay: It is a beautifully designed feature, which has pre-set scenarios and also allows you to customize your own scenario. The model behind is super accurate and picks up & continues the conversation, effectively mimicking as close to a real person as possible.

   

   Select any scenario or create one; go ahead and practice that salary raise

   

   Detailed feedback for every section of the conversation; also framework like GROW for improvement

   • Presentation: This would be the most used & useful scenario for most of us. You can record your piece. Not only do you get detailed feedback - both as a crisp summary and also as highlights of specific sections in your delivery. Also, if you don’t have a specific pitch but just want to improve your confidence and get over that stage fright, Yoodli has you there as well and provides little quips of inspiration for you to talk about and practice! Nifty! AI generates follow-up questions about your pitch, helping you be fully prepared.

   • Interview: Blew our minds away again! In this one, you can select your role, company, and tone for the interviewer. There are, of course, questions generated based on the information you provided and you can also add questions.

     

     Select the company, role, tone and prepare to be quizzed by your AI interviewer

   • Upload: This is pretty much the same as the “Presentation” mode, except that here you can upload any video of your choice rather than record it live. Recently, the CEO of Yoodli took to LinkedIn, sharing how Yoodli could analyze the speech delivered by US Vice President Kamala Harris at her first rally - and it was spot on!

     

     Kamala Harris’s latest speech Yoodlified

2. Yoodli for Meeting: Post-meeting analysis provides insights into your performance, while team mode allows for collaborative feedback. Designed with privacy in mind, Yoodli integrates seamlessly with popular meeting platforms Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams to enhance your overall meeting experience.

Now for fun, if you thought Yoodli only delivers the AI speaking coach, you are so wrong. Yoodli certainly believes that “All work & no play makes Jack dull”. There is a feature called “Exercises”, and they are exercises to make you the next Steve Jobs on stage. These exercises force you to think on your feet without fumbling while speaking, and did we say these are quite addictive (in a fun way 😋)?

That’s not all! Yoodli is your actual personalized AI coach, you can select up to 4 Focus areas you want to work on and Yoodli keeps a tab on those!

What’s the intrigue?

Varun Puri (Yoodli’s CEO & co-founder) recently delivered a talk at Microsoft, which both Spark & Trouble were very lucky to be able to attend. He said his vision for Yoodli, is that it becomes your personal AI speech coach not just when you record yourself but anywhere and everywhere you are, always with you whispering into your ear.

While the technical challenges of real-time, context-aware speech analysis are immense, the potential impact is equally profound. Yoodli could become more than a tool; it could be a life coach, helping users build confidence, improve relationships, and advance their careers. This vision positions Yoodli as a pioneer in the burgeoning field of AI-driven personal development, potentially disrupting traditional coaching and therapy models.

However, such a pervasive AI assistant raises important questions about privacy, consent, and the potential for overreliance on technology. Yoodli would need to carefully navigate these ethical considerations to maintain user trust.

As Yoodli continues to evolve, it could become an indispensable companion, empowering individuals to unlock their full communication potential.

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