Put a Mac in your beam-splitter rig and Tellie follows the talent's voice, so nobody matches scroll speed by hand. Mark the lines they have to read verbatim and watch each one land. Set the segment time. Revise the script from your machine and their prompter updates between takes. No operator, no prompter rental, no rig software.
Tellie tracks the words the talent actually says and scrolls to match. No operator riding the speed.
How it works on set
A Mac in the beam-splitter, the script on screen, and Tellie doing the job a prompter op used to.
Flag the lines the talent has to read verbatim: the sponsor read, the CTA, the promo code, the legal. Set the segment time while you're there.
Tellie follows the talent's voice and scrolls to match. They ad-lib, they pause, they go off book, and it keeps pace. Nobody rides the speed.
Each mandatory turns green as it's covered, and Tellie flags the talent if a segment is about to run long, in time to fix it.
Why it's different
Mark the sponsor read, the CTA, the promo code, the legal line. Each turns green the moment the talent covers it, so you know the verbatim copy landed in the take, not in the edit.
Everything else is theirs to ad-lib. Tellie tracks whether the point got made, even in their own words, so the talent hits the brand's asks and still sounds like a person.
Set the segment length. Tellie back-times against the talent's real speaking pace and flags them before they run over, in time to tighten, not after you've lost the take.
Point Tellie at a shared script file. Revise it from your machine and the talent's prompter updates live, between takes. One file, always the current draft, no "which version is this?"
Who already runs it
Not a concept for the shoot floor. It's already there.
Sprague Theobald, a two-time Emmy Award-winning producer and actor, runs his takes on Tellie. "It truly is a magnificent app."
SAG-AFTRA actors load their sides into Tellie, stay hidden from casting on Zoom, and let it follow their read instead of chasing a scroll.
Turn on Mirror text and Tellie flips the script for reflective teleprompter glass. It is already running in the field in a Neewer beam-splitter.
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Switch on Voice Follow and Tellie reads along with the talent, scrolling to the words they actually say. They speed up, they slow down, they ad-lib a whole sentence, and the line stays under the lens. Nobody rides the speed, and nobody's guessing the talent's pace.
Coming next
We're building a companion view: pair a phone or iPad and follow the talent's script and where they are in it, live, on your own screen, without leaning over their Mac. Read-only and on your local network. It is in the works, not shipped yet, and the four things above are all live today.
Voice Follow, the mandatory marks, the segment clock, live script updates and the rest are all switched on for your first 10 days. No card, no sign-up, nothing to cancel. Run a real take with it.
After that Tellie stays a complete teleprompter, free, and Pro is $29 once, per Mac, no subscription.
For pacing, yes. Voice Follow tracks the words the talent actually says and scrolls to match, so nobody rides the speed or guesses their pace. You still run the shoot; you just don't need a person dedicated to the prompter.
Yes. Turn on Mirror text (Settings, Appearance) and Tellie flips the script for reflective teleprompter glass while the controls stay upright. It is already running in the field in a Neewer beam-splitter. A one-switch full blackout behind the text is in the works; today you set a black background and size the window into the rig.
You mark the mandatories: the sponsor read, the CTA, the promo code, the legal line. Each turns green the moment the talent covers it, so you can see the required copy landed in the take. Everything unmarked is theirs to ad-lib, and Tellie still tracks whether the point got made even in their own words.
Point Tellie at a shared script file (a synced folder like Dropbox or iCloud works). Turn on "Watch script file for live updates," and when you revise the file from your machine, the talent's prompter reloads to the new draft between takes. One file, always current.
No. The script stays on the Mac and speech recognition is on-device, so nothing about the take leaves the room. The privacy page has the full list.