Studio A · Teleprompter
Paste your script, pick a reading pace and let the words roll. Fullscreen, mirrored for glass rigs, on any screen.
Welcome to Ripple Brief. [smile, look into the lens]
This is a sample script, so you can see how the prompter moves before you paste your own. Press Start, or tap the screen, and the words roll up towards the reading line.
Read at a relaxed pace and let the text follow you. If it runs ahead, press the down arrow to slow it down. If you find yourself waiting for it, press the up arrow. [pause]
Short lines are easier to read from a distance, so keep your sentences simple and your paragraphs short. A blank line in your script becomes a small gap on screen, which is a good place to breathe.
Anything inside square brackets, like the note at the top, shows in a different colour and is left out of the timing. Use it for reminders such as [slow down] or [next slide].
When you are ready, clear this text, paste your script and choose a pace. Good luck, and enjoy the show.
Tap the screen or press Space to start and pause. Drag the screen, or use the Position slider, to move by hand.
While the prompter runs, it asks your browser to keep the screen awake.
Saved in this browser as you type. Notes in [square brackets] show in colour and are left out of the timing. You can also drop a text file onto the box.
Words per minute; ↑ and ↓ change it while you read
Share of the screen width, so lines wrap alike everywhere
Narrower lines keep your eyes near the camera
Paste or type your script into the script box, or open a plain-text file. The prompter screen shows it straight away, laid out as it will be in fullscreen: text size and margins are a share of the screen width, so lines break in the same places on a phone, a laptop or a large monitor.
Set the speed in words per minute. The prompter counts the words in your script and scrolls so that the last line reaches the reading line after about as long as it takes to say them at that pace. Start a little slower than you think and adjust with the arrow keys as you read; if you know your own pace, measure it on the speech length page.
Press Start. After the countdown the text rolls up towards the reading line. Keep your eyes there and let the words come to you. While the prompter runs it asks the browser to keep the screen awake (the Screen Wake Lock feature); where that is not supported, turn off auto-lock before a long take.
A glass beam-splitter prompter, the kind that sits in front of a camera lens, shows the screen reflected in angled glass, which reverses it left to right. Turn on Mirror so the reflection reads normally. Flip mirrors the text top to bottom, for rigs that reflect the screen from above; with both on, the text is turned round for a screen mounted upside down.
On a touch screen, tap the prompter to start or pause and drag it to scroll. In fullscreen, the buttons along the bottom change speed and text size.
Plan the length, time the delivery, pace the slides.
Words to speaking time and back, at slow, average and fast rates, or your own measured pace.
Green, amber and red timing lights, fullscreen for the speaker, with a log for club meetings.
Split a talk into sections, get the time for every slide and print a run sheet.
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Run the network self-checkIt is free, with no sign-up, and your script never leaves your device. The prompter runs entirely in your browser. Your script and settings are saved only in this browser's local storage, so they are still here next time; Clear removes the script.
Open the page on the device that sits under the glass, turn on Mirror and press Fullscreen. If the words still look upside down in the glass, turn on Flip as well. Start and pause with a tap on the screen, or with a wireless keyboard.
Around 130 to 150 words per minute suits most presentations. Begin there and adjust while you read: the up and down arrow keys change the speed by 5 wpm without stopping. If you have measured your own pace, use that number.
Text size is a share of the screen width, so every screen fits the same words on each line. On a small screen, raise the size or narrow the margins. Fewer words per line are easier to read at a distance.