ChatGPT Prompt for Speech Writing: 10 Prompts by Occasion

A good ChatGPT prompt for speech writing gives it three things: the occasion, your time limit, and your own stories. With those, ChatGPT can turn minutes into a word budget, build an outline, and write a draft meant to be spoken out loud. The 10 prompts below are grouped by occasion, and each one keeps the facts yours.

Write from your own stories: no copied speeches or unattributed quotes, and keep wedding, memorial, and retirement speeches kind to everyone in the room.

Start with time and stories

1. Word budget from minutes

I have [minutes] minutes to speak at [occasion], and I read about [words per minute] words per minute. Work out my word budget with room for pauses, then split it across an opening, three stories, and a close.

2. Story miner

I am giving a speech about [person or event]. Ask me eight short questions, one at a time, that pull out specific stories, names, and small details I could use. Do not suggest stories yourself.

Celebrations

3. Retirement speech

Write a [minutes]-minute retirement speech for [name], who is leaving after [years] as [role]. Use these stories: [stories]. Keep it warm and a little funny, and avoid [topics]. Add [PAUSE] cues after key lines.

4. Award acceptance speech

I am accepting [award] from [group]. I have [minutes] minutes. Thank these people by name: [names and why]. Add one short story about [moment] and end on what the work means to me. No false modesty, no long lists.

5. Birthday or anniversary toast

Write a two-minute toast for [person's] [birthday or anniversary]. The room is [audience]. Use these memories: [memories]. Keep inside jokes out unless everyone will get them, and end with a line everyone can raise a glass to.

School and work

6. Graduation speech

I am a [student, teacher, or parent] speaking at [school]'s graduation for [minutes] minutes. Here is what this class went through: [facts]. Build one clear message for the graduates and use two of my stories: [stories]. No famous quotes.

7. Team kickoff speech

Write a [minutes]-minute kickoff speech for my team of [size] starting [project]. Here is the goal: [goal], the hard part: [challenge], and what I need from them: [asks]. Honest, energizing, and specific to this team.

8. Farewell to a coworker

Write a short farewell speech for [coworker], who is moving to [next step]. Here is what they did for the team: [examples]. Keep it under [minutes] minutes and end with a send-off line.

Polish and deliver

9. Make it sound spoken

Here is my speech draft: [draft]. Rewrite it for the ear: shorter sentences, names in full the first time, no lines that only work on paper. Keep my stories and my meaning exactly.

10. Emergency cut

The schedule is running late and I now have [new minutes] minutes. Here is my speech: [speech]. Cut it to fit, tell me which part you removed, and keep the opening and the closing line.

Write the whole speech with one prompt

The flagship Speech Writing Prompt: Any Occasion, Timed to Your Minutes works out your word budget, outlines the speech with planned word counts, writes a read-aloud draft with pause cues, adds delivery notes, and gives you a shorter backup version. Its example is a four-minute retirement speech for a clinic office manager, built around a butterscotch jar and a flood.

To find your speaking pace, read one paragraph aloud for 60 seconds and count the words. It is more accurate than any average.

Related prompts

For a wedding, use the wedding toast speech writer. For a funeral or memorial, the eulogy writer is built for a spoken tribute. If you are giving a talk rather than a toast, start with the conference keynote talk outline generator.

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