Yoodli, Poised and Orai are AI speech coaches that score delivery habits such as filler words, pace and hedging. Yoodli suits roleplay practice and team rollouts, Poised gives live feedback inside video meetings, and Orai is a low-cost mobile app for daily drills. None of the three replaces a human media trainer for strategy, framing or hostile-question preparation.
Updated October 20, 2026.
Which AI speech coach should you pick?
The right AI speech coach depends on where the practice happens: Yoodli for roleplay and teams, Poised for live meetings, Orai for phone-based drills.
- Pick Yoodli if you want recorded practice and AI roleplays, or need a tool a team can roll out with SSO and admin controls.
- Pick Poised if your weak spot shows up on Zoom, Google Meet, Teams or Slack calls and you want feedback while you speak.
- Pick Orai if you want a cheap, mobile-first app for short daily speaking drills.
- Pair any of them with a human trainer before a high-stakes interview, because the software scores delivery and does not judge strategy.
What do Yoodli, Poised and Orai each do?
Yoodli, Poised and Orai each analyze how a person speaks, but they differ in format: Yoodli records and roleplays, Poised coaches live, and Orai drills on a phone.
| Tool | Main format | What it scores | Best fit |
|---|
| Yoodli | Recorded practice and AI roleplays | Clarity, pace and filler words | Individuals and teams practicing pitches, interviews and sales calls |
| Poised | Real-time overlay during online meetings | Filler words, hedging, interruptions, conciseness, talk time | Professionals who speak mostly on video calls |
| Orai | Mobile app with guided drills | Filler words, pace, energy, clarity, conciseness | Individuals building a daily practice habit |
| Speeko | Mobile app with lessons and analysis | Pace, tone, word choice, intonation | Individuals who want structured lessons |
Yoodli was founded in 2021 by Varun Puri and Esha Joshi and is based in Seattle. Its December 2, 2025 announcement of a $40 million Series B named Google, Snowflake, RingCentral, Databricks and Sandler Sales among its enterprise customers.
Poised coaches during the call itself. Its on-screen overlay shows live nudges on pace, filler words and energy across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Slack, and a post-meeting report follows.
Orai runs on iOS and Android and on the web at orai.com. Speeko is mobile-first and pairs speech analysis with lesson content from voice coach Roger Love.
How much do Yoodli, Poised and Orai cost?
Yoodli, Poised and Orai all have low-cost individual plans, and only Yoodli and Poised sell team plans by quote.
| Tool | Free tier | Paid individual plan | Team or enterprise |
|---|
| Yoodli | Starter, five roleplays in total | Pro $8 per month billed annually ($11 monthly); Advanced $20 per month billed annually ($28 monthly) | Quote only |
| Poised | Free plan with live feedback | Pro $13 per month billed annually ($19 monthly) | Custom pricing |
| Orai | Freemium listing | Reported at $9.99 per month or $39.99 per year | Not published |
| Speeko | Freemium listing | Reported at about $84 per year | Not published |
Yoodli's individual prices come from its pricing page as read by AI Tools Bakery on August 12, 2026. Poised's prices come from Fitgap's listing of the Poised pricing page, and the Orai and Speeko figures come from a Beginners in AI roundup. Vendors change plans often, so confirm the current price on each vendor's site before buying.
Team pricing is harder to pin down. Yoodli's pricing page says Team and Enterprise plans add custom scenarios, admin controls, integrations and SSO, and that buyers contact sales for a price. Outdoo, a competing sales-training platform, reported one 2026 quote of $600 per user per year, or a flat $21,000 per year for 100 or more seats. Treat that as a single data point and not a rate card.
How the prices in this guide were checked
Prices were compared across the vendor pricing pages where they were readable and third-party listings where they were not. Yoodli: yoodli.ai/pricing, read by AI Tools Bakery on August 12, 2026. Poised: Fitgap listing. Orai and Speeko: Beginners in AI, "Orai explained." Enterprise quote: Outdoo, August 25, 2026.
Is Yoodli or Poised better for speech coaching?
Yoodli is better for deliberate practice and team training, and Poised is better for fixing habits that appear during live meetings.
Yoodli lets a speaker rehearse a pitch or interview, then review the scored recording. Poised works the other way: it watches the real meeting and flags hedging words, interruptions and filler words as they happen.
A speaker who presents rarely and prepares carefully gets more from Yoodli. A manager who spends the day on calls gets more from Poised.
How does Yoodli compare with Orai and Speeko?
Yoodli offers more roleplay and team features than Orai or Speeko, while Orai and Speeko cost less and focus on short mobile drills.
Orai and Speeko both analyze recorded speech for pace and filler words and suit a person who wants five minutes of practice a day. Orai also partnered with Mandel Communications on an AI-driven learning app, according to Training Industry Magazine.
Yoodli adds scenario-based roleplay and a Team and Enterprise tier with SOC 2 Type 2 certification, which Yoodli lists on its pricing page. That is the deciding factor for a communications department with a security review.
How does Yoodli compare with Mursion, ReflexAI and Hyperbound?
Mursion, ReflexAI and Hyperbound are conversation-simulation platforms aimed at organizations, and each targets a different kind of conversation than Yoodli's speech coaching.
| Platform | How the vendor describes it | Typical use |
|---|
| Mursion | Avatar simulations run by trained human simulation specialists who blend live conversation with AI | Soft-skills and leadership practice |
| ReflexAI | A conversation performance platform that pairs simulations with quality assurance on live interactions | Crisis, education and healthcare teams |
| Hyperbound | A roleplay platform built for sales, customer success and solutions engineering, with real-call scoring | Revenue teams |
None of these is built for executive media training. A spokesperson preparing for a journalist needs delivery scoring and a human who can play the reporter, which is why the speech coaches above are the closer comparison.
AI speech coaches cannot choose what an executive should say, which is the core decision in media training.
| Media training task | AI coach role | Human trainer role |
|---|
| Cutting filler words and hedging | Scores every practice run and tracks progress | Spot-checks the pattern |
| Building the key messages | None | Decides the framing and the three things to say |
| Answering a hostile question | Can script a practice question | Applies real journalist pressure and follow-ups |
| Crisis statements | None | Judges what not to say and who should say it |
| Executive confidence | Gives private repetitions | Gives credible, senior feedback in the room |
This division is EPR's assessment, based on what each tool says it scores. For the full discipline, see the 2026 media training guide, and for interview preparation see executive and crisis media training.
The workable pattern is to let a human trainer set the strategy and let software supply the repetitions between sessions.
- Run a session with a human trainer to settle the three key messages and the hardest questions.
- Have the spokesperson rehearse those answers daily in Yoodli or Orai and review the scored recordings.
- Switch Poised on for real meetings to catch live habits such as hedging and interruptions.
- Return to the human trainer for a mock interview with adversarial follow-ups before the real one.
Software lowers the cost of practice, which makes a trainer's limited hours go further. It does not lower the need for those hours.
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