ChatGPT Speech & Presentation Writer Prompt
You are a professional speechwriter who has written addresses for political leaders, CEOs, and TEDx speakers.
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✍️ Writing
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Intermediate
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3
Last Updated
2026-06-28
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📋 Prompt
You are a professional speechwriter who has written addresses for political leaders, CEOs, and TEDx speakers.
Topic: [speech topic]
Occasion: [occasion — keynote/wedding/graduation/toast/TED-style/award acceptance]
Audience: [audience]
Duration: [duration] minutes
Task: Write a complete speech:
1. OPENING: A memorable hook — story, surprising fact, or provocative question (not 'Today I'm going to talk about...')
2. THESIS: The one idea this speech is about (stated once, clearly)
3. BODY: 3 main points, each with a story or specific example
4. TRANSITION PHRASES: Natural bridges between each section
5. EMOTIONAL PEAK: The moment of maximum emotional resonance (Story + Universal truth)
6. CALL TO ACTION or CLOSING THOUGHT: What you want the audience to carry with them
7. FINAL LINE: Memorable, quotable, stands alone
Format: [SECTION] labels. Approximate word count per section. Include [PAUSE] and [SLOW DOWN] delivery notes.
Tone: Match the occasion. A wedding toast and a CEO keynote have very different registers.
Length target: [duration] minutes at 130 words/minute.
Topic: [speech topic]
Occasion: [occasion — keynote/wedding/graduation/toast/TED-style/award acceptance]
Audience: [audience]
Duration: [duration] minutes
Task: Write a complete speech:
1. OPENING: A memorable hook — story, surprising fact, or provocative question (not 'Today I'm going to talk about...')
2. THESIS: The one idea this speech is about (stated once, clearly)
3. BODY: 3 main points, each with a story or specific example
4. TRANSITION PHRASES: Natural bridges between each section
5. EMOTIONAL PEAK: The moment of maximum emotional resonance (Story + Universal truth)
6. CALL TO ACTION or CLOSING THOUGHT: What you want the audience to carry with them
7. FINAL LINE: Memorable, quotable, stands alone
Format: [SECTION] labels. Approximate word count per section. Include [PAUSE] and [SLOW DOWN] delivery notes.
Tone: Match the occasion. A wedding toast and a CEO keynote have very different registers.
Length target: [duration] minutes at 130 words/minute.
[OPENING — 90 seconds]
In 1993, a 19-year-old dropped out of university with £200, a laptop, and a business idea that every investor told him was too early.
That business was Shopify. That 19-year-old was not Tobi Lütke. It was someone else — someone whose name none of us know — because he gave up 6 months before the idea became obvious.
[PAUSE]
The most expensive words in entrepreneurship are not 'I failed.' They're 'I almost.'
[THESIS]
What I want to talk to you about today is not how to succeed. It's about how to stay in the game long enough for success to find you...
[TRANSITION to Point 1]
And that starts with something no one teaches you in business school — the art of the deliberate restart.
In 1993, a 19-year-old dropped out of university with £200, a laptop, and a business idea that every investor told him was too early.
That business was Shopify. That 19-year-old was not Tobi Lütke. It was someone else — someone whose name none of us know — because he gave up 6 months before the idea became obvious.
[PAUSE]
The most expensive words in entrepreneurship are not 'I failed.' They're 'I almost.'
[THESIS]
What I want to talk to you about today is not how to succeed. It's about how to stay in the game long enough for success to find you...
[TRANSITION to Point 1]
And that starts with something no one teaches you in business school — the art of the deliberate restart.
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Best model for this prompt
Claude
Claude (Opus 4 / Sonnet 4)
The audience remembers the first 30 seconds and the last 30 seconds more than anything in between — write these last, and write them best
Read your speech out loud at full volume — what reads well on paper often sounds flat when spoken
The best speeches are built around one story, told at the beginning and returned to at the end with new meaning
Vary your sentence length — long sentences build tension, short ones land the point
Opening with 'Thank you for having me' — it's filler; start with the hook
Trying to cover too much — the best speeches make one point memorably, not ten points adequately
Writing in paragraphs without accounting for breath — spoken language needs more white space
Not ending definitively — trailing off is the most common speech mistake; your final sentence needs to land like a full stop
- How do I handle nerves?Preparation is the only real solution. The more thoroughly you know your material — not word-for-word but the flow and the stories — the less your brain has to do in the moment. Practice out loud at least 5 times.
- Should I memorise or use notes?Memorise your opening (first 2 minutes), closing (last 90 seconds), and transitions. Use speaker notes for the middle sections. Reading verbatim from paper kills the connection with the audience.
- Can Claude write better speeches than ChatGPT?Claude is generally stronger for formal speeches and keynotes where rhetorical structure and language nuance matter. For more casual or humorous speeches (weddings, toasts), ChatGPT often produces warmer, more spontaneous-sounding copy.
- How do I write a speech for someone else?Interview them for 20–30 minutes first. Capture their natural speech patterns, specific stories, and how they phrase things. The best ghostwritten speeches sound like the speaker — not the writer.