A New Discovery - Vocalic Prompting
- Tom Hansen
- Jul 7, 2025
- 1 min read
Updated: Jul 14, 2025

Your take away: You can make AI-generated text feel real if you borrow techniques from voice-activated GPTs. It shifts the tone entirely and gives your writing presence.
Last week, I was working on improving an AI that had been used as a guest contributor at a few leadership round tables. It was built for voice, not for text. A voice activation GPT.
But by chance, I asked it to write a response. And something strange happened. The output sounded exactly like something a person would say. Not just grammatically correct, but full of rhythm, pauses, and presence.
So, I started exploring. What happens if you write a prompt as if it’s meant to be spoken, and then give it to a text-only AI?
Turns out, you get something that many are aiming for but rarely succeed in. You get AI text that reads like a human wrote it. Not like a user manual crossed with a self-help coach who just inhaled a bag of LinkedIn quotes.
