OPF Tone

Conversational

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.

conversational4 voice cues3 sample phrases

Tone

Conversational

4

cues

4

avoid

Direct, dialog-style voice for podcasts, fireside chats, and small-group reviews.

“Why now? Two things changed in the last six months.”

Generation cue

Ask a question on the slide, then answer it on the next.

Summary

Direct, dialog-style voice for podcasts, fireside chats, and small-group reviews.

OPF Field

tone

Schema

https://openpresentation.org/schema/opf-tone/v1

Voice Cues

  1. 1

    Ask a question on the slide, then answer it on the next.

  2. 2

    Use second person — speak to the room, not at it.

  3. 3

    Lean on stories and concrete examples over abstract framing.

  4. 4

    Keep each idea to one short paragraph; let the dialog do the rest.

Avoid

  1. 1

    Lecture-style monologue across many bullets.

  2. 2

    Hedge-laden academic phrasing.

  3. 3

    Stuffing slides — leave room for the discussion.

  4. 4

    Inside-baseball references the room may not share.

Sample Phrases

“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.”

Recommended Narrative IDs

all-handscompany-introweekly-progressperformance-review

Tags

dialogpodcastdiscussion

OPF Config

tones:conversational
Open Presentation Format
{
  "$schema": "https://openpresentation.org/schema/opf/v1",
  "version": "1.0",
  "meta": {
    "title": "PPTX.gallery — tones/conversational"
  },
  "tone": "conversational",
  "design": {},
  "slides": [
    {
      "id": "gallery-preview-1",
      "layout": "title-slide",
      "elements": []
    }
  ]
}
Open in OPF Playground

Preview this config live at pptx.dev/playground.