Tavara is where you practice the conversations that matter. Talk through realistic AI simulations, handle the questions you didn’t prepare for, and learn to think on your feet before the moment is real.
10 free minutes when you sign up, no card needed. Or try a 5-minute voice session without an account.
The live session screen (illustration).
AI can help you draft a strong answer, and that’s useful preparation. But in the room nobody reads your draft. They ask what you meant, push on the weak part, and wait while you think.
Why do you want to join the student council exec board?
I want to improve communication between students and the council. I’ve led two clubs, I’m organised, and I’m good at bringing people together around a shared goal.
It reads well. Nobody has questioned it yet.
Each question comes from your last answer. That’s the part you can only practice out loud.
Illustrative example from the Exec Chair scenario.
Three steps, and you can start the first one in under a minute.
Pick a scenario such as a debate round or an admissions interview, start a 90-second drill, or build a custom room from your own prompt, rubric or job description.
Talk with an AI that listens to your answers and responds to them with follow-up questions and objections. Set it to Supportive, Realistic or Strict; on Strict it interrupts more readily.
Get a score out of 100 with a breakdown by skill, plus your strengths and gaps in plain language. Then run the room again or switch to a drill. Signed-in sessions are saved to your history.
Short drills keep you sharp between big moments. Full simulations let you rehearse the moment itself. Most people do both.
Drills don’t replace rehearsing the real conversation; they build the habits you bring to it. Both use the same minute balance.
A debate round and a job interview look different, but they test the same abilities. Each one has places to practice it today.
Answering the question you didn’t see coming, without stalling or rambling.
Making a case, backing it with reasons and evidence, and answering the other side.
Getting to the point in an order the listener can follow, and landing a clear conclusion.
Holding your position under pressure, responding to objections and moving the other person.
Students and young adults facing these conversations for the first time. They often come with little warning and no second attempt. You can read every guide and still freeze on the follow-up; Tavara lets you have the conversation a few times first, where a stumble costs nothing.
Debate rounds, student council and club exec interviews, admissions interviews and language orals.
Behavioural and job interviews, your first salary negotiation, and any conversation you set up yourself.
A chatbot is good at writing an answer for you. Tavara is built for the part nobody can do for you: saying it yourself, live, and handling what comes back.
Each question builds on your last answer, so a vague claim gets questioned instead of accepted.
A live voice conversation. There’s no pause to edit, just like the real thing.
A role, a context and a rubric. An admissions interviewer wants different things from a hiring manager.
Same room, new attempt, as often as your minutes allow, so you can try a different approach.
A score for each skill the room is judged on, plus your strengths and gaps in plain sentences.
Signed-in sessions and scorecards are saved, so you can look back at how earlier attempts went.
As more writing and technical work gets done with AI’s help, the things you still have to do in person matter more: explaining your thinking, persuading a room, answering the question behind the question. Those are skills, and skills come from practice.
Feedback is only useful if it changes the next attempt. Here’s the loop.
An overall score, a score for each skill the room is judged on, and your strengths and gaps in plain sentences.
Your lowest skill score is usually the place to start, and the gaps tell you what it looked like in your answers.
Run the same room with that one thing in mind, or do a 90-second drill in the same area.
Every signed-in session and its scorecard stays in your history, so you can compare attempts.
Illustrations of the scorecard and History screens.
Each room puts a different person across the table, with their own priorities, their own rubric and their own way of pushing back.
Run a full round in Lincoln-Douglas, World Schools or British Parliamentary format. Every other seat is an AI speaker with its own voice, and points of information land mid-speech, so you practice holding your line while someone is on their feet against you.
Pick a debate format
Exec Board ChairInterview for student council, DECA leadership, an MUN chair or a club board seat. The chair asks why you over the other candidates, tests your platform with skeptical follow-ups and scores your clarity, credibility, composure and persuasiveness.
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Language EvaluatorSit a spoken language exam or oral defense. The evaluator speaks in your target language, asks you to describe, explain and justify, and scores fluency, grammar, vocabulary range and pronunciation.
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Alumni EvaluatorAn alumni interviewer asks why this school, what you would add to campus and the personal question you did not prepare for, then pushes past anything that sounds rehearsed. Scored on specificity, authenticity, depth and composure.
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Campus RecruiterThe “tell me about a time” round. Answer in STAR form, then handle the follow-up that asks what you personally did. Scored on STAR structure, clarity, filler words and authenticity.
Try this roomPaste the job posting and the interviewer adapts to it. Engineering and finance roles get technical or case-style follow-ups, generalist roles stay broader, and every question references the role and company you gave it.
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Hiring ManagerA hiring manager opens with a real offer and a budget band behind it. Make your counter, back it with evidence and hold steady when they say the number is fixed. Well-reasoned asks move the offer; vague ones do not.
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Custom personaPaste a prompt, a rubric, a DECA case or a job description, or upload a PDF or Word file. Tavara turns it into a persona with questions to match, for any conversation that is not on this list.
Build your roomA first session takes ten minutes. Sign up for 10 free minutes with no card, or try a 5-minute voice session without an account.