Voice Profile Tool
Voice Signal tells you how distinctive your writing is. This tool tells you why.
It identifies the specific mechanisms behind your voice: the sentence structures you default to, the rhetorical devices you lean on, the rhythms you fall into, and what you conspicuously avoid. Most writers can't name their own patterns. This tool can.
Paste your text. See what makes it yours.
Examples
From The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Artist mode):
“The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.”
Voice summary
“This voice employs deliberate repetition and structural parallelism to create accumulative weight, moving from physical description through temporal markers. The rhythm privileges concrete detail over abstraction, with sentences that circle back to reinforce key facts rather than advancing linearly, creating a meditative, almost incantatory quality.”
Most characteristic line
“Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.”
Mechanisms detected
Author unknown (Business mode):
“We are committed to delivering innovative solutions that drive measurable results for our clients. Our team of experienced professionals leverages cutting-edge technology and industry best practices to help organizations navigate complex challenges and achieve their strategic objectives. We believe in fostering collaborative partnerships built on trust, transparency, and a shared commitment to excellence.”
Voice summary
“Quintessentially generic corporate marketing language that relies on abstraction, superlatives, and empty reassurance. The writing deploys vague value propositions, repetitive commitment statements, and aspirational claims without concrete evidence — undifferentiated B2B content designed to appeal to everyone and offend no one.”
Mechanisms detected
Conspicuously absent
- ✕No specific case studies, client names, metrics, or concrete examples of past success
- ✕No acknowledgment of limitations, trade-offs, or what the company does NOT do
- ✕No distinctive voice or point of view — entirely interchangeable with competitor messaging
Pair this with the Voice Signal Tool to see both how distinctive and why distinctive your writing is.
This tool is one of more than a dozen deployed in the Selflet Factory. Learn more →