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Teleprompter

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Your camera preview appears here

The script sits over the top of it, close to the lens. Nothing is recorded until you press Record, and nothing is uploaded at all.

Move the text

Look

Space
Record, or stop
P
Pause and resume
S
Start or pause the text alone, to rehearse

The script is saved on this device. The take is recorded in this tab and written straight to your downloads — closing the tab discards it.How this works

Stays on your device

Online teleprompter that records while you read

Paste your script, press record, and look at the lens. The text scrolls at your pace or follows your voice, and the take is saved straight to your device.

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The short answer

To use a teleprompter online, paste your script, press Show on the prompter, and turn on the camera. The text appears over the top of the preview, close to the lens. Press Record and it scrolls from the top — at a steady speed you set, or by following your voice and waiting when you pause. When you stop, play the take back and download it. The video is recorded inside your browser and is never uploaded.

How to use it

Three steps to a finished take

  1. Step 1: Paste your script

    Type or paste what you are going to say and press Show on the prompter. The script is saved on your device, so it is still there tomorrow.

  2. Step 2: Choose how the text moves

    Steady speed scrolls at a pace you set in words per minute. Follow my voice listens as you speak and only moves to words you have said, so it waits when you pause.

  3. Step 3: Turn on the camera and record

    The text sits over the top of the preview, next to the lens. Press Record and it starts from the top with the take. Stop, watch it back, and download the video.

Reading without looking like it

Five things worth knowing

  • Keep the text next to the lens

    Your eyes give a script away when they travel. The text here sits at the top of the preview because that is where a laptop's camera is. Shrink the browser window and push it up under the webcam, and sit at arm's length or further — the further back you are, the smaller the eye movement looks.

  • Write short lines

    Every line break you type is kept as a break on the prompter, so put one where you would breathe. Two short sentences read better than one long one, and a line that fits without wrapping is a line you can take in at a glance.

  • Set the pace to your speech, not the other way round

    Most people present at 130 to 160 words a minute. Rehearse once with S — it runs the text without recording — and nudge the pace until you are never waiting for a word and never chasing one. The word count under the script shows how long the take will run at that pace.

  • Use voice follow for takes with pauses

    Steady speed never waits. If you stop to think, hold something up or restart a line, follow-my-voice is the better mode: it only moves to words it has heard. If it loses you, tap the line you are on and it picks up from there.

  • Mirror text is for glass, not for screens

    A beam-splitter rig reflects the screen off angled glass in front of the lens, which reverses it, so the text has to be flipped first. If you are reading straight off a laptop or phone, leave Mirror text off.

Troubleshooting

If the camera did not start

Open the one that matches what the tool told you.

Your browser is refusing camera access for this site. The permission has to be reset from the address bar — a page cannot ask twice on its own.

Chrome, Edge, Brave

  1. 1Select the camera or padlock icon at the left of the address bar.
  2. 2Set Camera to Allow.
  3. 3Reload the page and run the test again.

Safari on Mac

  1. 1Open Safari → Settings → Websites → Camera.
  2. 2Set this site to Allow.
  3. 3Reload the page.

Firefox

  1. 1Select the padlock in the address bar.
  2. 2Next to 'Blocked temporarily' or Camera, select the × to clear the block.
  3. 3Reload the page and choose Allow.

iPhone and iPad

  1. 1Open Settings → Safari → Camera and set it to Ask or Allow.
  2. 2For Chrome, open Settings → Chrome → Camera and turn it on.
  3. 3Return to the page and reload.

Android

  1. 1Open the browser menu → Settings → Site settings → Camera.
  2. 2Allow the site, or clear it from the Blocked list.
  3. 3Reload the page.

The browser could not see any camera at all. That is a hardware or driver problem rather than a permission one.

Any device

  1. 1Check for a physical privacy shutter or a sliding lens cover.
  2. 2Many laptops have a camera kill switch — an F-key with a camera icon, or a switch on the side.
  3. 3Unplug and replug a USB camera, ideally into a port on the computer rather than a hub.

Windows

  1. 1Open Settings → Privacy & security → Camera and turn on 'Camera access' and 'Let apps access your camera'.
  2. 2Scroll down and make sure 'Let desktop apps access your camera' is on.
  3. 3Open Device Manager → Cameras. A yellow warning icon means a driver problem: right-click → Update driver.

macOS

  1. 1Open System Settings → Privacy & Security → Camera and turn on your browser.
  2. 2Quit and reopen the browser — macOS only applies the change on relaunch.
  3. 3For an external camera, try a different cable; some USB-C cables carry power only.

Something else already holds the camera. On Windows only one app can use it at a time, and background apps count.

Any device

  1. 1Fully quit Zoom, Teams, Meet tabs, Slack huddles, OBS, Camo and any camera utility — closing the window is often not enough.
  2. 2Check the system tray or menu bar for apps still running in the background.
  3. 3Reload this page and run the test again.

Windows

  1. 1Right-click the taskbar → Task Manager and end Zoom, Teams or OBS if they are still listed.
  2. 2A camera in use shows a white dot in the taskbar corner; hover it to see which app.
  3. 3If nothing is listed, sign out and back in — a crashed app can leave the camera locked.

macOS

  1. 1A green dot next to the camera means it is active. Check Control Centre to see which app is using it.
  2. 2Quit the app from the menu bar, or force quit it with Option-Command-Escape.
  3. 3Reload this page.

The camera works — the picture is the problem. This is the most common complaint and almost always lighting.

Fix the light

  1. 1Face your light source. A window or lamp in front of you beats any camera upgrade.
  2. 2Move a bright window out from behind you, or close the blind — a backlit shot makes your face a silhouette.
  3. 3A cheap desk lamp bounced off a wall gives softer light than pointing it at your face.

Fix the camera

  1. 1Clean the lens. A smear of finger grease is behind a surprising share of 'blurry webcam' complaints.
  2. 2Close other apps: a busy CPU makes the browser drop frames.
  3. 3If your camera has a utility app (Logitech, Elgato, Razer), check the exposure and auto-focus settings there.

Still black

  1. 1Switch camera in the picker above — a virtual camera left behind by OBS or a meeting app is often selected by default.
  2. 2Disable any 'virtual background' or camera-effects software.
  3. 3Restart the browser, then the machine.

Your script and your take stay on your device

There is no upload code in this page. The script is kept in your browser's own storage, the video is recorded in the tab, and the file is written straight to your downloads. One thing is worth being exact about: follow my voice uses your browser's speech recognition. Where the browser can do that on the device, it does. Where it cannot, the browser sends your speech to its maker's service, so the page asks before turning it on and the badge above the camera changes to say so. Steady speed never listens at all.

  • No upload, no server copy, no account
  • The script is saved on this device only
  • The script is never part of the recorded video
  • Voice follow asks first when the browser cannot do it on the device
  • Ads never load or refresh while you are recording
  • Site analytics count the visit, and never see the script or the take
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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Is this teleprompter free, and do I need an account?

It is free, with no sign-up and nothing to install. There is no watermark: the file you download is your camera and microphone only, so you can use it wherever you would use any video you recorded yourself.

Can I change the text size and the speed?

Yes. Text size is a slider in the prompter settings, and steady speed is set in words per minute. Press S to run the text without recording and adjust both until the pace feels right. Mirror flips the text for a glass beam-splitter rig.

Is my script or my video uploaded?

No. The script is kept in your browser's storage on this device, and the video is recorded in the tab and written straight to your downloads. There is no upload code on the page and no server that could receive either. Closing the tab discards a take you have not downloaded.

Does voice follow send my voice anywhere?

It depends on your browser, and the page tells you which applies before it starts. Voice follow uses the browser's built-in speech recognition. Recent versions of Chrome can run that on the device, and when they can, that is what is used. Otherwise the browser streams your speech to its maker's service to recognise it — Google for Chrome, Apple for Safari. Spolvero receives nothing either way, but it is not the same as nothing leaving your device, so you are asked first. Steady speed involves no speech recognition at all.

Is the script burned into the video?

No. The text is drawn over the preview by the page; it is not part of the camera stream that gets recorded. The downloaded file is your camera and microphone only.

Why is the preview mirrored but the file is not?

People expect to see themselves as in a mirror, so the preview is flipped. The recording is the camera's real view, so writing on your shirt or a product in your hand reads the right way round for everyone watching.

What format is the video?

Whatever your browser records best. Chrome and Safari give MP4, which Instagram, YouTube and WhatsApp accept directly. Firefox gives WebM, which YouTube accepts and most editors open. The page tells you which one you got.

Can I trim the video here?

Not yet. The voice recorder trims audio because audio is light enough to edit in a tab; video is not, without a very large download. Leave a second of stillness at each end and trim it in your phone's gallery or editor.

Does it work with Hindi scripts?

Steady speed works with any script in any language, because it does not need to understand the words. Voice follow can listen for Hindi, and matches a script written in Devanagari. A Hinglish script — Hindi words in Latin letters — is not reliably matched, because the recogniser writes what it hears in Devanagari. Use steady speed for Hinglish.

Voice follow stopped moving. What now?

Tap the line you are on and it picks up from there. It holds its place on purpose when it hears something that is not in the script, so an ad-lib or a cough does not scroll the text. On phones, some browsers will not run speech recognition while the microphone is recording; if that happens the text switches to steady speed and says so.

I only need audio. Is there a version without the camera?

Yes. The voice recorder has the same script panel: press Read from a script above the timer. It records audio only, trims it and exports MP3 or WAV.

How long can a take be?

The limit is your device's memory, because the video is held in the tab until you download it. A few minutes is comfortable on any recent laptop or phone. For a long piece, record it in sections — which is also how to get fewer mistakes per take.

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Before you record

See how long your script runs, check the picture and the sound, or record audio only with the same script panel.