What Are the Voice Prompts You Can Choose on Hinge?

Hinge does not publish one complete list. Its pages describe Voice Prompts as a way to give a prompt answer as a recording of up to 30 seconds, and they name only a few examples. The full set of choices is shown inside the app, when you go to add one. So the honest answer is to open the editor and read what it offers you.

Hinge's announcement of the feature names prompts such as best travel story, proof I have musical talent and my best celebrity impression. It describes them as built around moments that are better heard than read.

That tells you what the whole category is for. These are prompts where tone, timing and a laugh matter more than the words. A story told well sounds different from the same story typed, and an impression cannot be written down at all.

Anything beyond those three, any list you see on a forum or in a screenshot, is someone's memory of what the app showed them. It may be wrong, and it may have changed. Treat it as a hint, not a source.

Go to Edit Profile, and in the Voice Prompt section tap Select a prompt. Choose a prompt, tap the microphone to record, and tap the stop button when you are done.

You can preview the recording before publishing. Once you tap done, it shows under the first picture on your profile. That position matters, because it is near the top of the page.

Use the preview, and play it back once before you publish.

You are choosing a prompt you can answer well out loud, not the one that sounds most impressive. Pick by asking which one you have already told to a friend.

Best travel story is the safest for most men, because almost everyone has one true trip and has retold it. If yours has a clear beginning, a turn and an end, it will fit in under thirty seconds.

A prompt like proof I have musical talent only works if you really have some. If you play something, say so briefly, or play a few seconds of it. If you do not, skip it, because a flat attempt is worse than a different prompt.

A prompt like my best celebrity impression is the riskiest. It lands when you are good at it and when you are relaxed. If you are not, a nervous impression teaches her that you are uncomfortable on camera, which is the opposite of what you wanted.

When in doubt, pick the one with a story. Stories are easier to carry than performances.

Record in a quiet room with the phone close to your mouth. Traffic, a television and an echoing kitchen all make a good story sound worse than it is. A small thing like closing a door improves a recording more than any amount of rehearsing.

You do not need to fill the time. A recording of fifteen or twenty seconds that ends cleanly beats thirty seconds that wanders. Aim for one idea, said at a normal pace, with a last line that stops.

Say it the way you would tell it to a friend across a table. Do not read from notes, do not start with an apology and do not explain the joke. If you have to explain it, record something else.

a dating coach's point about any profile is that boring is the real danger, and a short, good one beats a long, bad one. A written prompt answer can be generic without anyone noticing. A voice cannot. A woman hears your warmth, your humor and your confidence in a way she cannot from text.

That cuts both ways. A relaxed, funny recording is a strong advantage. A stiff one is a liability. So record it twice, listen once, and publish only the better take.

My advice on taking pictures is that what you are thinking when you are recorded shows up in the result, and a recording is no different. If you are thinking about getting it over with, she hears that. If you are thinking about the story, she hears the story.

If you do not like how you sound, do not add one. A strong written page beats a weak recording. You can always add a Voice Prompt later when you have something worth saying.

Whichever prompt you pick, check the page again afterward the way a stranger would. Play it once on speaker, in a quiet room, and ask whether you would stop on this man's page. If the answer is yes, leave it up. If not, change it for another prompt, and keep the one that sounds like you.