Priya's Wednesday, Two Ways

Priya, a speechwriter for a state health director.

Priya starts her Wednesday with a 9 a.m. speech for Dr. Chen, the state health director. The topic is a new vaccination program, and the press team needs talking points by noon. Last month she would have spent the morning staring at a blank page. Today she opens ChatGPT and uses the Research And Angles prompt. She types in the topic, the audience of local clinic leaders and a few notes from Dr. Chen's last interview. In two minutes she has a research packet and five angles, including one about trust that she had not considered.

Next she uses the Match Speaker Voice prompt in Claude. She pastes three past speeches where Dr. Chen uses short, warm sentences and a lot of direct address. The prompt rewrites her rough opening so it sounds like Dr. Chen, not a generic assistant. Priya reads it aloud and smiles.

Before lunch, she opens Gemini and uses the Talking Points And Q&A prompt. She feeds in the complex eligibility rules and asks for five crisp lines a busy reporter could use. She also gets three tough questions and suggested answers. She edits one answer to be softer. Then she uses Edit And Tighten to cut the speech from 12 minutes to 8. The result is sharper and easier to follow.

By 2 p.m. the speech is done. Priya sends it to Dr. Chen with notes for delivery. She has time to rehearse with Dr. Chen for 20 minutes and still leave the office at 5. She uses the extra hour to walk by the river and think about next week's graduation speech. The work still feels like hers, but the heavy lifting is shared.