Nicole Brachetti Peretti: Finding the Right Tone

The same message can sound warm, brief or formal, and Nicole Brachetti Peretti explores how AI can help by suggesting a few versions. Her closing thought is the important one: choose the words that still sound like you.

Short film · 13 seconds · In English

Transcript

The same message can sound warm, brief, or formal. AI can suggest a few versions. Choose the words that still sound like you.

Key points

  • One message can be written in a warm, brief or formal tone.
  • AI can offer a handful of versions to compare.
  • The final choice should still sound like the writer.

A note from the journal

Anyone who keeps a journal knows that tone is half the meaning. A note written for yourself, a letter to an old friend and a thank-you card to a host can carry the same news and sound completely different. Nicole Brachetti Peretti sees AI as a helpful sounding board for that choice, laying out a few versions side by side so a writer can hear the difference. The writing pages on this site make a similar point: clear prose comes from choosing, not from producing more words. Read the options aloud, keep the one that feels natural, and adjust a phrase or two until it is unmistakably yours. Used that way, a quick suggestion becomes a small lesson in style, and the voice on the page stays your own.

More short films

All six films sit together on the homepage of Nicole Brachetti Peretti, alongside the journal, the reading notes and the blog.