# Spokesperson Voice Profile

Capture a speaker’s authentic vocabulary, rhythm, evidence habits, views, storytelling patterns, sensitivities, approval process, and communication boundaries.

## Usage note

Develop this profile with the speaker’s informed participation and approval. It supports authentic drafting; it is not permission to fabricate opinions, personal experiences, quotations, or knowledge. Protect private interview material, document who may use the profile, and route sensitive, legal, or crisis statements through qualified review.

## How to use this template

1. Agree on purpose, permitted sources, access, privacy, attribution, and approval with the spokesperson.
2. Analyze varied approved samples and interview the speaker using explanation, challenge, story, and revision prompts.
3. Document reasoning patterns, vocabulary, rhythm, evidence, opinions, stories, uncertainty, and boundaries with examples.
4. Define drafting, fact-checking, quotation, localization, sensitive-topic, and final approval workflows.
5. Test a sample draft with the speaker, record corrections, and review the profile as views or responsibilities change.

## Blank template

### Profile foundation

- **Spokesperson and role:** [Name and current responsibility]
- **Profile purpose:** [Speech, articles, internal notes, interviews, or another]
- **Authorized users:** [Who may access or draft]
- **Approved sources:** [Artifacts and dates]
- **Restricted sources:** [Private or out-of-scope material]
- **Profile owner:** [Communications role]
- **Speaker approval:** [Date and scope]

### Observable voice

- **Typical opening:** [How the speaker begins]
- **Sentence rhythm:** [Short, layered, varied, or another with example]
- **Vocabulary:** [Natural terms and phrases]
- **Transitions:** [How ideas connect]
- **Evidence habit:** [Data, first-hand observation, analogy, source citation]
- **Story pattern:** [Setup, detail, lesson]
- **Humor:** [Suitable context and boundary]
- **Uncertainty:** [How the speaker qualifies or defers]
- **Audience relationship:** [Direct, formal, conversational, instructional, or another]

### Views and boundaries

- **Established positions:** [Approved topics and source]
- **Personal stories approved for use:** [Scope and facts]
- **Requires fresh confirmation:** [Changing claims or opinions]
- **Will not speculate about:** [Boundary]
- **Sensitive topics:** [Required reviewer and process]
- **Words the speaker would not use:** [Examples and reason]
- [ ] No opinion or memory is inferred from style alone.
- [ ] Quotations are verified against an approved source.
- [ ] Role and personal views are not blurred without permission.

### Workflow

- **Drafting owner:** [Role]
- **Fact-check owner:** [Role]
- **Speaker review required for:** [Content classes]
- **Localization or adaptation:** [Approval and intent]
- **Disagreement path:** [Who resolves wording or meaning?]
- **Review trigger:** [Role, view, audience, or incident change]