I also experience that hyperawareness you talked about. Not just with speech, but with social anxiety too. A technique to deal with that is instead of trying to not be aware (which is impossible), shift your focus elsewhere. ​ >If you are talking, you are in control. Then, when I have the tools to not get stuck and have established a baseline of manageable fluency, I set goals for talking and practicing with other humans and then meeting those goals. One doubt I have about this is to do with the nature of talking......not oration (where you're reciting a speech, story or poem), but talking (like in a conversation). The way I see it is like this: Talking is fundamentally different from other skills (like martial arts or playing an instrument) in one way. Talking is highly emotional and instinctive. It's like a direct gate to your thoughts and feelings. A knee-jerk reaction. That's why when most people are talking to each other, they're not even thinking beforehand. They are thinking in real time and the speech is flowing out automatically. The brain is working in sync with all the muscles associated with speech. So I think when most people are talking spontaneously, they're not even in control of themselves (consciously). If that is how talking works for regular people, how are we supposed to control our speech in real time? Unless what you're talking about is it pre-planned talking? Like if you've already planned what sentences you want to say? This could be even 2 or 4 seconds in advance. I can see how you can use fluency shaping there. Because now you already know the words and the goal now is to work your way through them. This would be more like oration because your brain doesn't have to work in sync anymore since you already know what to say. And this would also be like other skills such as learning to play guitar. If someone is trying to play a guitar solo, they already know what notes to play.....they're just focusing on improving their control of the guitar.