SHHHHHH!
(The Speaker Is Speaking)

This page tries to show what the speaker sees during a speech.

Web pages don't do it justice. You really should try the free trial and see the real thing.

First, we'll try to show the impact of the full-screen display.

Below, you can play with the sounds that we provide.

 

NOT Full-Screen

Before you see a full-screen display, you should see what many speech timers provide. This one, Copyright (C) 2001 Stan Birdwell, is typical.

 

Of COURSE you can see it if you look at it.
But can you see it if you are NOT looking at it?

Speakers are supposed to make eye contact with people in all corners of the room, and may look down at their notes from time to time. It's possible to miss an event.

Why do so many programmers use three circles? Because red, yellow, and green suggest a traffic light?

This timer is what the author needed, and it gave him what he wanted. But does it give YOU what YOU want???

• It only offers three speech profiles. I hope you can find what you need in that list. Tick-Talk-Clock offers an unlimited number of profiles, and you can create your own.
  
  
• Each profile is rigid. In the 2-minute one, the green light comes on at 1 minute. What if your speech club wants it to come on at 1:30? Tick-Talk-Clock's profiles are flexible. You can alter the behavior of any profile, whether provided by us or written by you.
  
  
• This timer only runs online. What if your meeting room has no Internet access? You must be online to download Tick-Talk-Clock and to register, but you can run offline at your meeting.
  
  
• Tick-Talk-Clock offers extras beyond the basic timing function. It plays sound files, generates the timer's report, maintains a database of speeches over time, and more.

 

Full-Screen

Tick-Talk-Clock uses a full-screen display. You can see it out of the corner of your eye.

In fact, if your meeting is in a conference room that is equipped with a huge projection screen, a full-screen display can actually change the ambiant color of the room! Imagine! Speakers might actually see the color of the lights with their BACKS TURNED TO IT!

The big digital display is an option.

• It is saved in the speech profile, so you can turn it on for table topics and turn it off for longer speeches.
• Then you can override it for each speaker. You can turn it on for guests and beginners and turn it off for more proficient speakers who would rather rely only on the lights. Just change the option in the profile on the setup screen, and don't save the file.
• You can even change the setting once the speaker starts! Notice the "Hide Timer" menu item. This changes to "Show Timer" if the bit timer is hidden.

Even if the big timer is hidden, you can still see the time in the title bar. It's so tiny that the speaker can't see it.

 

Notice the other menu items:

• PAUSE - In case you have a meeting interruption.
• MUTE - Like "Hide Timer", you can silence the sounds while the speaker is speaking.
• TIMER SIZE - If you KNOW you won't have any wider values, you can make the timer even bigger.
• "You can also..." - This is not a real menu item, but putting it there doesn't waste any of your full screen. When the speaker stops, hit the STOP button. But remember, your PC is pointing away from you, and it might be difficult to hit that button with your mouse pad.

 

 

Set Your Monitor On STUN!

A FLASHING full-screen display is even more eye-grabbing! It CANNOT be ignored!

Add sounds that NOBODY can ignore! We provide more than a dozen bells and buzzers that you can play at any script event, and you can add your own. Tick-Talk-Clock can play most WAV files.

Of course, all this is optional, since Tick-Talk-Clock is completely programmable.

If you are NOT using Internet Explorer	If you ARE using Internet Explorer
There are TOO many browsers out there. Firefox, for example, won't play sound unless you install an add-on. This is too much trouble when it's so easy to take the FREE TRIAL and play with the real thing. If you are NOT using Internet Explorer, then start a NEW Internet Explorer, and go to this address:      http://www.tick-talk-clock.com/sounds.aspx	Play with the sounds:

 

 

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