paste a sample of your writing and see where it lands on six core voice dimensions — formality, tone, respect, energy, directness, and concreteness.
get started for free — install hyv, paste the command in your terminal, and run onboarding in seconds.
npm i -g @holdyourvoice/hyvformal ↔ casual — measured by sentence length, contractions, and slang. serious ↔ playful — punctuation patterns and word choice. respectful ↔ irreverent — directness and hedging language. reserved ↔ enthusiastic — exclamation density and power word use. direct ↔ indirect — hedging words vs. assertive language. abstract ↔ concrete — ratio of tangible nouns to conceptual language.
at least 50 words for a rough read. 150–500 words gives a reliable analysis. paste your about page, a full blog post, or a product description for best results.
use them as a baseline. run multiple samples — a homepage, a blog post, a social caption — and compare. inconsistency across samples is where brand voice breaks down.
tone is situational (the mood of a single piece). brand voice is structural — the consistent personality underneath every piece you write. this tool measures voice, not tone.
founder of hold your voice. writes about brand voice, ai writing patterns, and the craft of sounding like yourself.
co-written with ai as sidekick. shashank drafts the voice; the ai pressure-tests the structure. anything that sounds wrong is shashank's fault — anything that sounds suspiciously generic is the ai's.
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