Every teleprompter scrolls. The question is what makes it scroll. Most of them are listening for sound and guessing at your pace. Tellie is reading your script and matching it against the words actually coming out of your mouth, which is a different thing entirely, and you feel the difference about ten seconds in.
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The category uses one phrase for three different mechanisms, which is why so many people buy a voice teleprompter and find it does not behave the way they expected.
| Approach | What it is actually doing | Where it falls apart |
|---|---|---|
| Fixed speed | Scrolls at a rate you set, regardless of you | The moment you pause, slow down, or add a sentence |
| Sound paced | Listens for whether you are talking and adjusts speed | It knows you are making noise, not which word you are on. A long pause reads as stopped, a noisy room reads as still going |
| Word level | Transcribes what you say and matches it to a position in your script | This is the one you want |
Tellie is the third kind. That is the whole design.
Voice Follow works in more than 40 languages and regional variants.
Speech recognition runs on-device. Nothing is recorded, nothing is uploaded, and there is no account to make. Tellie listens for you, not on you. Read the whole privacy page.
Tellie sits in the notch, right beside the camera, so following your script and looking at the lens are the same motion. On a Mac without a notch it uses the same strip along the top edge.
And it is excluded from screen capture by macOS itself, so on a call nobody sees it. Voice Follow keeps listening even while Zoom or Teams is the app in front. How the invisible teleprompter works.
“Having a teleprompter that follows my speech instead of scrolling at a fixed speed is an absolute game changer.”
Jens Nuessle · actor and live performer
“Word level tracking is such a clever touch, following you even when you ad-lib or jump back solves the exact thing that makes normal teleprompters stressful.”
Mark Santos
Voice activated usually means the app is listening for sound and changing its scroll speed. Tellie transcribes what you say on your own Mac and matches it against the words in your document to work out which word you are on. Knowing the position is what lets it wait through a pause and catch up after a skip, instead of guessing at a pace.
Yes. Ad lib for as long as you like. Tellie holds your place, and the moment you say something that appears in your script it picks up from there. With Stagehand marks it will also credit a point you made in your own words, not only the lines you read.
No. Speech recognition runs on-device. Nothing is recorded, nothing is uploaded, and there is no account.
More than 40 languages and regional variants.
Tellie is free forever as a teleprompter. Voice Follow is part of Tellie Pro, and every download includes 10 days of Pro with no card and no sign up. After that Pro is $29 once, never a subscription, for up to 3 Macs.
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