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Writing scripts and reading to the camera
A short list of posts, added to when there is something to say. The post on iPhone teleprompters covers the competitors too, and it is written for the reader first.
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How to write a YouTube script
How to start from the question a video answers, plan sections that can become YouTube chapters, size a script in words for the length you want, write each section to be heard, keep shot notes out of the lines you read, and record a long script in parts.
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How to write a TikTok script
What goes into a TikTok script and in what order, how many words fit the length you record, how to write lines you can say in one breath, a worked 60-second example, and how to read the script over TikTok’s camera instead of memorising it.
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How to use an iPad as a teleprompter
The four places an iPad can sit as a teleprompter and what each one costs, how far back to sit, what changes in a rig at iPad size, text size, brightness and glare, the free Pages route, and where Wispim fits.
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Teleprompter for presentations: what PowerPoint has, and what to use in the room
Where PowerPoint’s teleprompter sits and what it is for, what Presenter View, Keynote and Google Slides give a live speaker, where a prompter goes in a room, and why a talk in front of people needs a prompter that waits.
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Best teleprompter apps for Windows in 2026
Eight teleprompters for a Windows PC compared on three questions: whether the script follows your voice, whether it floats above your slides or a call, and whether you pay once or every month.
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Best teleprompter apps for Mac in 2026
Ten teleprompters for a Mac compared on three questions: whether the script follows your voice, whether it floats above your call or sits by the camera, and whether you pay once or every month.
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Teleprompter speed in words per minute, and where 150 comes from
Why every guide says 150 words per minute, what the research measures instead, why a prompter should run slower than you read, how to time your own pace in two minutes, and why the number changes between languages.
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How to write a script for a teleprompter
What changes when a script is read aloud from a prompter instead of from a page: sentence length, numbers and names, capitals, paragraphs and cues, timing the length, and a worked before-and-after, with the newsroom rules behind each.
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How to use a teleprompter, from the glass to the first take
The working side of a teleprompter: what the glass does and the light it costs, the foot-per-inch distance rule, why text under the lens beats text beside it, the four ways to control speed, and a checklist for the first take.
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How to build a DIY teleprompter for a phone
A beam-splitter rig from two picture frames: how it works, which glass to use and why plain glass shows the text twice, the angle and the mirror, the light the camera loses, and why the screen and the camera have to be two devices.
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How to read a script on camera without looking like you’re reading
The craft behind reading on camera and keeping eye contact anyway: the glance that betrays you, writing for the ear, the angle between your words and the lens, and the tell a fixed scroll speed leaves.
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Best teleprompter apps for iPhone in 2026
Six iPhone teleprompters compared on the two questions that narrow the list: whether the script follows your voice, and whether you record inside the app or in someone else’s camera.