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

cues

avoid

“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
Ask a question on the slide, then answer it on the next.
2
Use second person — speak to the room, not at it.
3
Lean on stories and concrete examples over abstract framing.
4
Keep each idea to one short paragraph; let the dialog do the rest.

Avoid

1
Lecture-style monologue across many bullets.
2
Hedge-laden academic phrasing.
3
Stuffing slides — leave room for the discussion.
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

focuscompany-introweekly-progressperformance-review

OPF Config

tones:conversational

Open Presentation Format

{
  "$schema": "https://openpresentation.org/schema/opf/v1",
  "name": "PPTX.gallery — tones/conversational",
  "tone": "conversational",
  "tags": [
    "gallery:tones/conversational"
  ],
  "slides": [
    {
      "id": "gallery-preview-1",
      "layout": "title-slide",
      "title": "Tone preview",
      "subtitle": "Voice tuned to the \"conversational\" tone.",
      "design": {
        "contentBox": false,
        "contentAlignment": "center",
        "titleAlignment": "center"
      }
    }
  ],
  "catalogs": {
    "layouts": {
      "records": [
        {
          "$schema": "https://openpresentation.org/schema/opf-layout/v1",
          "id": "title-slide",
          "name": "Title_Slide",
          "label": "Title Slide",
          "summary": "Bold, centered typography with minimal elements. Perfect for opening your presentation with impact.",
          "description": "Bold, centered typography with minimal elements. Perfect for opening your presentation with impact.",
          "tags": [
            "Opening",
            "Impact",
            "Minimal"
          ],
          "master": "Gallery",
          "masterSlideIndex": 0,
          "groupHash": "ddf3a920a68b7a0316802c6a646bb4bb481c6f5a288d236ab3021b4b990d25c2",
          "groupDefault": true,
          "contentType": "Title",
          "contentMultiple": "None",
          "contentAlignment": "Center",
          "contentBox": false,
          "contentTypeChartPrimary": "None",
          "contentTypeImageFill": "None",
          "contentTypeListBullet": "None",
          "contentTypeListHeading": false,
          "slideTitle": true,
          "slideTitleAlignment": "Center",
          "slideImage": false,
          "slideImageAlignment": "None",
          "slideLayoutDirection": "None",
          "zones": [
            {
              "role": "title",
              "placeholder": "title"
            },
            {
              "role": "subtitle",
              "placeholder": "subtitle"
            }
          ],
          "preview": {},
          "details": "Bold, centered typography with minimal elements. Perfect for opening your presentation with impact. OPF placeholders: title, subtitle.",
          "category": "opening-closing",
          "spatialCategory": "hero",
          "contentTypeTags": [
            "mixed",
            "title"
          ],
          "placeholders": [
            {
              "type": "title"
            },
            {
              "type": "subtitle"
            }
          ],
          "slideSubtitle": true
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

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