Voice follow

Start and stop

In the prompter you start voice follow with the flower at the bottom. A grey outline means off, filled green means on; while you speak, it pulses slightly. Tap again to stop.

Then just speak. Spoken words turn grey, the text ahead stays light. If you pause, the script waits. If you skip a sentence or add something of your own, Prompt Flower finds its place again. While it is searching, Finding position … appears at the top.

Modes

In the Mode menu in the control bar:

• Voice: the script follows your voice. This is voice follow.
• Speed: the script scrolls at a fixed pace, in words per minute (60 to 300, starting at 140). Use − and + to change it in steps of ten.
• Manual: the script only moves when you drag, tap or press a key.

In Speed and Manual mode the start button is a normal play/pause.

The reading line

Two small green arrows at the edge mark the Reading line. It sits in the upper third, close to the front camera, so your eyes stay close to the lens. Under … › Appearance › Reading line you can move it (15 to 70 percent of the screen height).

Jump back and try again

A sentence went wrong? The buttons in the control bar:

• Back to sentence: to the start of the current sentence. If you are already there, to the start of the previous one.
• Back to paragraph: the same for paragraphs.
• Start: to the beginning of the script.

During a recording the buttons are shortened to Sentence and Paragraph, and every jump back sets a marker that the rough cut uses.

Also:

• Tapping the top edge of the screen jumps to the start, as in other iOS apps.
• Tapping a word moves the position to that word.
• Dragging scrolls the text; when you let go, it snaps to the word on the reading line.

The control bar

While voice follow is running, the control bar collapses after a few seconds into a small bar with the flower and an arrow, so more text stays visible. Tap the arrow or an empty area to show it again. With VoiceOver or Switch Control it stays open.

Appearance

Under … › Appearance (or Settings › Appearance and speed):

• Font size from 24 to 96 points.
• Reading line (see above).
• Contrast: White on black or Yellow on black.
• Highlight current word: colours the current word green. Off by default; spoken words turn grey anyway.
• Mirror for teleprompter glass, see Mirror mode.

Good to know

• The screen stays on while the prompter is open.
• If you switch to another app, the prompter pauses.
• When you open a script again, the text is where you left off.
• Without Pro, the script follows your voice for 5 minutes a day. When they are used up, it continues at a fixed pace; a recording in progress is not interrupted. See Subscription and purchases.
• If the script does not follow you, see Troubleshooting.