About Honored Words
Honored Words is a speech-writing tool for people who have to stand up and speak at a wedding, a funeral, a retirement or a graduation and do not have a writer on call. You answer guided questions about the person and the room, it drafts three versions from your own stories, and you edit until it sounds like you. It covers 50 speech types and is made by Petr Royce.
Why it exists
Most people give three or four important speeches in their life, usually with a deadline and no practice. The templates they find online sound like everyone else. A professional speechwriter costs a few hundred dollars and a week. A chatbot with no structure gives back something bland, because it never asked which story to tell.
Honored Words starts with the questions a good speechwriter would ask: how you know the person, the one memory that shows who they are, what you want the room to feel at the end. The drafts are only as good as those answers, which is why the questionnaire does most of the work.
How the generator works
Pick a speech type. Each one has its own set of questions, written for that role: a father of the bride is asked about the moment he met the groom, an employee retiring is asked who covered for them on the hard days. Choose a tone and a target length. The generator uses an AI language model to write three drafts from your answers, each with a different opening and emphasis.
You can read the opening of every draft free. Unlocking a speech costs $9 and includes unlimited edits, a PDF download and the teleprompter and timer for practice. A lifetime pass is $49 and covers every speech type, including ones added later. There is no subscription. Refunds are available within seven days; the details are on the pricing page.
Your answers and drafts are used only to write your speech. They are not published, shared, or used as examples anywhere on this site. The privacy policy has the specifics.
Who writes the guides
Petr Royce
Founder, Honored Words
Petr builds Honored Words and writes and reviews the speech guides on this site. The guides come from the same questions the generator asks: who is in the room, which story shows the person, and how the speech should end.
Every guide, template and example page shows the date it was last reviewed (currently September 3, 2026). Example speeches are written for this site with invented names; none of them is a customer's speech. Corrections go to support@honoredwords.com. How pages are written and checked is set out in the editorial policy.
What this site will not do
It will not promise a standing ovation. A speech lands because of the story in it and the person telling it, and no tool can guarantee how a room reacts. It will not show you reviews we cannot stand behind: the customer quotes on the homepage are published with the writer's permission, and there are none until there are. It will not put a made-up expert's name on a guide.
Questions, press requests and problems with a draft all go to the same place: the contact page.