Online teleprompter

Paste the spoken draft, not the essay

An online teleprompter is only useful if the words on the glass are the words you will say. Paste the spoken draft into the script box before you press Launch teleprompter. Leave out headings, slide labels, and sentences you wrote for a reader who can reread. The online teleprompter scrolls whatever you paste, including the asides you meant to cut.

The sample button loads a 64-word script that Unprompted wrote for this page. At the default 130 words per minute, that sample takes about 30 seconds to say. Use it to learn the controls, then replace it with your own lines. The online teleprompter does not save the script when you leave or refresh. If the wording matters, keep a copy in your own notes.

Short lines are easier to catch with your eyes. A paragraph that fills the box becomes a wall once the type is large. Break the script where you would breathe. The online teleprompter does not insert those breaks for you.

Pace, type size, and mirror

Launch teleprompter opens a full-screen online teleprompter. Play starts the motion. Pause holds the place. Restart returns to the top. Speed is a words-per-minute control that begins at 130. Text size begins at 52 pixels. Mirror off flips to Mirror on, which mirrors the line horizontally so a glass or a reversed camera can show it the right way to you.

The scroll time follows the speaking pace and the length of the script. If you pause and play again, the online teleprompter continues from the remaining distance. It does not replay the whole script just because you stopped. That matters when you are rehearsing the last third and do not want the opening again.

Set the type large enough that you can read it while looking toward the lens or the room, not down at a laptop in your lap. If you still have to hunt for the next word, the type is too small or the pace is too fast. Slow the online teleprompter before you blame your memory.

• Play, pause, and restart stay on the online teleprompter, not in a second window.
• Speed is words per minute, starting at 130.
• Text size starts at 52 pixels.
• Mirror on applies a horizontal flip to the text.

A 64-word sample at 130 words per minute

Press Use a sample script, then launch the online teleprompter and play it once without trying to perform. You should hear four beats: the sentence you want repeated, a reason, one example, and the sentence again. The sample is about 30 seconds at 130 words per minute. If the online teleprompter finishes while you are still on the example, your pace is slower than 130. Lower the speed, or cut a line, and run it again.

Ten spoken words at 130 words per minute is about five seconds. The sample is not a five-minute talk. It is a control check. After the check, paste your real script and set the speed to the pace you measured on the words per minute calculator, not to a number you hope to hit when you are nervous.

If the target slot is five minutes and the script is still the 64-word sample, you are about four and a half minutes short. That is a writing problem, not a scrolling problem. Add one example or a slower close, then bring the new draft back to the online teleprompter.

When the scroll gets ahead of you

Chasing the text means the online teleprompter is faster than your mouth, or the script is denser than speech. Pause. Drop the speed by a small step. Read the same paragraph again. If you are still late, the sentence is too long for the breath you have. Split it in the editor, relaunch, and play from the top of that paragraph.

Mirror on is for a physical setup that reverses the image. Leave it off when you are reading a laptop screen straight on. A mirrored line on a normal display is harder to parse, and you will blame the pace for a display choice.

The online teleprompter does not listen to you. It will not slow down when you stop to think, and it will not skip ahead when you skip a sentence. Voice-following prompters on other sites do that. This one keeps a steady pace so you can practice hitting a rate you chose. If you need the scroll to wait for your voice, this is the wrong tool. Use it as a pace rehearsal, then deliver without it.

What this online teleprompter will not do

The script stays in the tab. Unprompted does not upload it, sync it to an account, or keep it after a refresh. There is no phone remote, no cloud library, and no built-in camera recording in the online teleprompter. Record on the video recorder if you want a file of the pass, and run the online teleprompter on the screen you are looking at.

There is no read-along voice and no promise that the scroll matches a studio recording. Commercial and classroom use is fine because the page does not add a watermark or a signup. The limit is practical: a refresh drops the unsaved script, and a blocked full-screen gesture in some browsers just leaves the online teleprompter as a fixed layer over the page. Press Edit script to leave that layer and change the words.

Do not paste a confidential script on a shared computer and walk away. The online teleprompter cannot log you out of a session you never started, but the text is visible to anyone who can see that screen until you navigate away.

A room setup that does not fight the online teleprompter

Put the online teleprompter at eye height. A laptop flat on a table pulls your chin down, and the audience sees the top of your head no matter how smooth the scroll is. If you are recording, raise the screen until the line you are reading sits near the lens. The online teleprompter cannot move your hardware. It only moves the words.

Stand far enough that 52-pixel type is comfortable. If you step back for a wider shot, increase the text size before you press Play. Squinting is a pace problem in disguise: you slow down to find the word, then rush the next line to catch the online teleprompter. One size change is cheaper than a second full rehearsal.

Use a short countdown you say out loud before Play, such as one breath, then the first sentence. The online teleprompter starts moving when you press Play, not when you feel ready. If the first line is gone before you start, pause, restart, and begin on the first word.

For a live room, glance down only at section breaks you marked in the script with a blank line. The online teleprompter is a rehearsal aid for those breaks, not a script you should read word for word in front of people who came to hear you think. Once the beats are in your mouth, turn the online teleprompter off and deliver from the structure.

Use the time check before you rehearse the scroll

Run the script through the speech timer first if the slot is fixed. The timer tells you whether the word count fits 110, 130, 150, or 170 words per minute. The online teleprompter then lets you feel that pace with your eyes up. If the timer says the draft is long, cutting words will help more than raising the scroll speed until you are gasping.

Mark the breaths in the pause planner when a paragraph keeps collapsing. A planned pause of about 1.5 seconds is a hold you can rehearse. The online teleprompter will not stop for that hold unless you pause it yourself. Practice the hold, then decide whether the online teleprompter should keep moving through it.

When the lines are stable, record one pass. Listening tells you whether you were reading or speaking. The online teleprompter cannot hear the difference.

A pass you can repeat on the online teleprompter

Run the online teleprompter three times on the same script before you change the words. The first pass shows whether the type size is readable. The second pass shows whether 130 words per minute is your mouth or just the default. The third pass is the one you keep, and only if you can look up at the end of each beat. The online teleprompter makes that comparison possible because the pace stays put until you move the control.

Stop the online teleprompter at the first line you cannot say without looking back. That line is the edit. Do not raise the speed to hide it. The online teleprompter will gladly scroll a sentence you have not earned, and the recording will show the rush. Cut or split the line, then launch the online teleprompter again from the top so the new length gets a full pass.

If a colleague will read the same script, let them set the speed themselves. Their online teleprompter setting is not your number. Write the pace you both can survive, then leave the online teleprompter at that shared rate for the rehearsal. A faster setting only helps when the listener already knows the material.

Keep the online teleprompter on one device you control. A shared browser profile can still show the last script until someone navigates away. The online teleprompter has no logout because it has no account. Closing the tab is the reset.

Use the online teleprompter for the opening and the close, where the wording is fixed, and speak the middle from bullets. The online teleprompter is a poor place to invent an example. If you need a new example, stop, edit, and relaunch. The online teleprompter should show the next committed line, not a guess you are still writing.