How it works

Playing

• Pick a location and a relationship, or roll the dice for one.
• Your partner speaks first. When the spotlight swings to you, say your line. Stop talking and your partner answers. No buttons needed.
• Headphones help. While your partner speaks, your mic is ignored so it won’t hear itself.
• Your partner’s line shows as a caption on the stage, so you can read it while you think of your answer.
• On a keyboard: Space ends your line early, and F calls Freeze in Genre Freeze.

Games

Classic Scene

Take turns building a scene. Six lines each, no pressure.

Shot Clock

Start your line before the clock runs out. It gets shorter every line.

Genre Freeze

Shout FREEZE mid-scene, call a new genre, and your partner switches styles.

Judging

When the curtain closes, an AI judge reads the script and evaluates it the way a Toastmasters evaluator would: something that worked, one thing to try next time (with a rewrite of one of your lines), and a second strength. You get a ribbon, a line of the night, and 1–5 scores on five improv skills: yes-and, adding, specificity, heightening and character, plus genre in Genre Freeze. Your partner is scored too.

Two Toastmasters roles are measured, not judged: the Timer gives each of your lines a green, yellow or red light for how quickly you came back, and the Ah-Counter tallies your ums and uhs. The judge reads the script only, so tone of voice doesn’t count. Play at least two lines to be judged.

Under the hood

Your partner is a speech-to-speech model (OpenAI’s gpt-audio-mini, via OpenRouter). It hears your recording directly, tone and all, and streams its answer back as audio, which starts playing in about a second. A small second model writes down your line for the script while your partner is already answering.

Your browser measures two things as you play: how soon you start talking after your partner stops, and how soon your partner starts after you stop. They’re on the recap.

Scripts are saved so you can share the recap link. Recordings aren’t kept.