Conversational

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  "$schema": "https://openpresentation.org/schema/opf/v1",
  "name": "PPTX.gallery — tones/conversational",
  "tone": "conversational",
  "tags": [
    "gallery:tones/conversational"
  ],
  "slides": [
    {
      "id": "gallery-preview-1",
      "layout": "text",
      "title": "Tone preview",
      "subtitle": "Voice tuned to the \"conversational\" tone."
    }
  ],
  "catalogs": {
    "default": {
      "source": "https://www.pptx.gallery",
      "tones": {
        "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": [
            "focus",
            "company-intro",
            "weekly-progress",
            "performance-review"
          ],
          "tags": [
            "dialog",
            "podcast",
            "discussion"
          ]
        }
      },
      "layouts": {
        "text": {
          "name": "Text",
          "summary": "Prose. Several blocks sit side by side when short and stack when long.",
          "tags": [
            "Text"
          ],
          "direction": "column",
          "regions": [
            {
              "name": "title"
            },
            {
              "name": "body",
              "accepts": [
                "text",
                "list",
                "quote",
                "code",
                "group"
              ],
              "role": "primary",
              "flow": "auto"
            }
          ],
          "description": "Explain one idea in continuous prose. Use paragraphs or flowing blocks for detail that needs to be read in sequence.",
          "preview": {
            "vectorSrc": "https://www.pptx.gallery/layout-previews/text.svg"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}