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Sound Like Me: make AI write the way you do.
AI writes emails that are correct and sound like nobody. Customers notice. This skill asks you seven quick questions, learns how you write, then writes that way every time.
Before and after
What makes AI sound like AI
Researchers have measured it. These are the habits that give it away, marked on a typical AI email, with the same email after the skill beside it.
Written by AI
Dear Mrs Patel,
I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to reach out regarding your recent enquiry.4 At Greenleaf Gardens, we are passionate about creating vibrant, bespoke1 landscapes that are not just beautiful, but truly3 a testament to your unique vision5.
Our comprehensive1 service covers design, planting and maintenance, ensuring a seamless experience from start to finish2.
I look forward to embarking on this exciting journey5 with you!
Kind regards, Tom
After Sound Like Me
Hi Mrs Patel,
Thanks for getting in touch. Happy to come and have a look at what you’re after.
We cover design, planting and maintenance, so can take it from start to finish if that suits. I’m free Tuesday or Thursday next week. Let me know which works and I’ll confirm a time.
Thanks, Tom
Same facts, fewer words. Tom answered seven questions and said he writes short, plain and without exclamation marks. The two dates came from him. The skill never makes anything up.
1Showy words
One study found ChatGPT uses “tapestry” over 150 times more often than people do.
2Sentences that trail off with “-ing”
“...ensuring a seamless experience.” AI does this two to five times more than people.
3“Not just X, but Y”
A stock way of sounding thoughtful. Say Y and move on.
4Stiff and distant
AI uses contractions like “I’ll” and “we’re” only about 60% as often as people.
5Puffed-up importance
Everything is “a testament to” something or “a journey”. Real people say what happened.
6The same voice for everything
People write a text, an email and a complaint differently. AI writes all three the same way.
Figures from Reinhart and others, PNAS, 2025, comparing GPT-4o with human writing. The other habits are listed in the guide Wikipedia’s editors use to spot AI text. None of them proves a piece was written by AI. People do all of these too. AI just does them constantly. The skill removes twelve such habits in all.
What you do
Seven quick answers.
1
Upload the skill and type “sound like me”.
2
Answer seven questions. Each one shows the same message written three ways. Reply A, B or C.
3
Paste in one real message you have sent a customer, if you have one to hand. This part is optional.
What you get back
Writing that sounds like you.
1
Your voice card: how you greet people, how long your sentences run, how you sign off.
2
Emails, replies and posts written in that voice, with the AI habits taken out.
3
Any AI draft you paste in, rewritten to sound like you, with a note of what changed.
The seven questions it asks
Which one sounds most like you?
Each question shows the same short message written three ways. You pick the one closest to how you would say it. It takes about two minutes.
1
Saying hello
How you open a reply to someone you have never met.
2
Short or long
Whether you write in quick lines or like to give the full picture.
3
Saying no
How you turn something down, and how much you soften it.
4
How relaxed
Whether you write “I’ll” or “I will”, and how casual you get.
5
Feeling
Exclamation marks, emoji, or neither.
6
Asking for something
How you ask a customer for an answer or a decision.
7
Signing off
The last line, and the name underneath it.
In Claude
Upload it once, then save your voice card.
1
Download the zip file from this page.
2
In Claude, open the menu and go to Skills and Connectors.
3
Open your Skills list, choose Upload skill and drop in the zip file.
4
In any chat, type “sound like me” and answer the seven questions.
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Save your voice card. Paste it into a Project’s instructions so Claude uses it every time. Without this step it only lasts for that one chat.
In ChatGPT
Paste it into a project.
1
Download the zip file and open the instructions file inside.
2
In ChatGPT, create a new Project called Sound Like Me.
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Paste the instructions into the project instructions.
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Start a chat in that project and type “sound like me”. Then paste your voice card into the project instructions too, so it is remembered.
Download Sound Like Me.
Free, and no email needed. One thing to know before you start: AI does not remember your voice between chats unless you save it. The skill gives you a voice card at the end. Keep it in a Project and you only answer the questions once.
Sounding like yourself is a good start.
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