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Great conversations feel magical, but they’re rarer than they should be. Too often, they happen by chance. I strongly suspect we can do better.
We take work seriously. We take fitness seriously. But conversations, the foundation of our social lives, we mostly just improvise. The tool helps you understand what makes your conversations work, to uncover new angles, and improve relationships in a structured way.
How?
1. Put your phone on the table, audio record, and talk to your friend/spouse/colleague like you always do, about nothing or everything. Or you could dunk in your WhatsApp messages or an email thread even.
2. Press analyse and read the stats. See where you excel or need improvement. Learn about how you behave in conversation, and what you could have done better instead.
3. Arrive at your next conversation better prepared. Knowing yourself and your conversation partner better. Growing as a conversationalist with every iteration, every time you meet.
What?
You'll get back scores on your conversations' degree of flow, novelty, shared exploration, alignment on viewpoint and style, and how consequential and emotional the convo is. Individual speakers will receive scores on information density, curiosity, warmth, being understood, and many other aspects that make up a good talk.
Why?
The scores and feedback are, as you might expect in this day and age, AI generated. I’d be the first to admit AI has made society a bit plastic, performative, deceptive. The last bastion of authenticity is the offline, face to face talk. Pouring your heart out to a friend in a poorly lit bar, a coffee place, at the dinner table, without a clear objective, for no other reason than the activity itself. Why would we want to add AI to that?!
As I see it, AI never creates the magic we live for. Only humans can. What it can do, what DoubleDialog tries to do, is nudge your conversational habits into the right direction. With advice like: don't over explain, ask more questions, bit more empathy regarding this subject here, a quick quip there, build on the proposed idea at hand more.
Becoming aware of your conversational strengths and weaknesses. With those now made explicit and over time internalised, the floor is all yours. It's not a tool that limits breathing room, I believe. Instead it makes you aware of (latent) social shortcomings and talents, creating a wide open field, increasing the chances for profoundly human conversational magic to strike.
