Script templates

Teleprompter script templates you can copy.

Four ready-to-use scripts and the handful of formatting habits that make any script easier to read out loud. Copy one, swap in your words, and read it from any teleprompter.

Steve Chazin • Updated October 2026 • 6 min read

How to format a teleprompter script

A script for reading out loud is not an essay. It is closer to sheet music: short lines, clear breaks, and small notes to yourself about how to say it.

• One thought per line. Break where you would breathe. Your eyes find the next line faster, and you stop running sentences together.
• A heading for every section. Hook, point, proof, close. When you lose your place, the headings are how you find it again, and in Tellie each one is a section you can jump to with Tab or a number key.
• Cues in square brackets. [pause], [smile], [slow down]. Tellie shows them as soft cues and never waits for you to say them.
• Spell hard names the way they sound. Write "Siobhan (shi-VAWN)" once and you will never stumble on it live.
• About 140 words a minute. Most people speak somewhere between 130 and 150 words a minute, so a two-minute video is roughly 280 words. Trim before you record, not during.

The templates below also use three optional Tellie marks. ## ! flags a section you must not skip, > key: names a point you want to make in your own words, and minutes: sets your time slot. In any other teleprompter they simply read as notes, so the templates work anywhere. The scripting guide explains the marks in two minutes.

The templates

YouTube video

For a two-minute creator video with a hook, one idea and a close.

minutes: 2

## Hook
Most people [pause] get this wrong in the first ten seconds.
Today I'll show you the one change that fixed it for me.

## ! The point
Here's the idea in one sentence.
[slow down]
Then the example that made it click.

## Proof
What happened when I tried it.
The number that surprised me.

## ! Close
If this helped, subscribe.
[smile] See you in the next one.

Presentation or talk

For a ten-minute talk to a room or a call.

minutes: 10

## Open
Good morning. [pause]
I want to start with a question.
How many of you have had a meeting this week that could have been an email?

## ! The problem
Here's what that costs us.
One number. One story.

## The fix
Three changes, in the order we'll make them.
> key: start with the decision

## ! The ask
What I need from this room today.
[breathe]
Thank you.

Sales demo

For a fifteen-minute product demo. The discovery-call version lives in the script library.

minutes: 15

## Set the scene
Thanks for the time. Before I show anything,
what made you take this call?
[listen]

## ! The one-minute version
Here's what it does, in one sentence.
Here's who it's for.

## Demo
Show the part they asked about first.
> key: saves an hour a week

## ! Next step
What would need to be true for you to try it?
Let's put a time on the calendar.

Team video update

For a three-minute recorded update or an all-hands segment.

minutes: 3

## Where we are
Quick update for the whole team.
We shipped on Tuesday. [smile]

## ! What changed
Two things are different starting today.
First, the new review step.
Second, who to ask when you're stuck.

## Thanks
A shout-out to the people who made this happen.
Questions go in the channel. Thanks, everyone.

Open in Tellie sends the script straight to the notch if Tellie is installed. More finished scripts, including a daily standup and a sponsored video read, are in the script library.

Write it, then say it once

The fastest edit is reading the draft out loud before you record. Anything you trip over, rewrite the way you actually said it. Anything you skipped without missing it, cut. What is left sounds like you, because it is.

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