Fade in:
Read it, record it, cut it, caption it.
A teleprompter that follows your voice, a recorder and a simple editor in one app. Because you read from your script, your captions come out in your own words, timed to your voice. Free, with no account needed.
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Hi. I'm reading this from a script, and the script is keeping up with me. When I pause, it waits.
When I'm done, the captions are already written: they're the words I just read, timed to my voice. No guessing at what I said, and no typing it all again.
Int. any room with a camera — day
From the first word to the finished video, in one place.
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The script
Type it, paste it or say it. Dictation turns what you say into a script, in the language you choose.
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The read
The prompter highlights the word you're on and scrolls as you speak. Or set a speed and keep to it.
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The take
Your camera, your screen, both at once, or only the microphone. A countdown, and you're on.
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The cut
Lay out recordings, images, titles and questions as steps. Each scene has a timeline of its own.
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The release
Captions, chapters and one video file, with a list of anything a viewer might miss.
Int. the prompter — continuous
It waits when you pause. It moves when you do.
Most prompters scroll at a speed you chose before you started, and you chase them. This one listens. It matches what it hears to your script and highlights the word you've reached, so a pause, an aside or a slow sentence doesn't leave you behind.
- It keeps its place. A misheard word, a skipped one or an "um" doesn't throw it. Click any word to jump there.
- Your voice, or a set speed. Follow along as you speak, or scroll at the pace you pick. Both are one click apart.
- Practice reading. The prompter and your script, with nothing recorded, until it sounds like you.
- Made for the lens. Text as large as you need it, and mirrored for prompter glass.
Where the words sit while you record
- Beside the preview
- Above it, nearer a laptop's camera
- In a window of its own
A clicker or a foot pedal will do
- Page Down Page Up
- A line on, a line back
- B . Space
- Start and stop
- ← →
- A word at a time
Int. the editor — later
Not one long timeline. Steps, each with its own.
A project is a set of steps joined like a flowchart: scenes, questions, and the logic between them. Ask a question in the middle, send a wrong answer to an explanation and a right one onward.
Click a step, and this is its timeline
- One recording, many steps. Use parts of a take in as many steps as you like. Trimming never changes the file.
- Three ways out. A video file, an interactive piece that waits for answers, or both from the same project.
- Watch it as a viewer would. Preview one step, the finished video, or the whole thing, answering its questions as you go.
Int. the captions desk — moments later
Captions made on your device, worded like your script.
The app transcribes a recording on your own computer, with a time for every word. Caption it as it was heard, or exactly as you wrote it, lined up with your speech.
- Readable by rule. Two lines of about 42 characters, on screen for one to six seconds.
- Checked before it goes out. It lists every stretch of speech with no captions, and Publish warns about steps without them.
- They travel with the video. A track viewers can turn on or off, kept in the MP4, with a
.vttfile beside it. - And a transcript. "Make a script of what was said" saves the words as a script you can edit.
Captions and transcripts are in the desktop app.
When I slow down to explain something, it waits.
- 0:12.4 Before we begin, notice that I'm looking at you, not at my notes.
- 0:16.1 The script on my screen is following my voice.
- 0:19.8 When I slow down to explain something, it waits.
- 0:24.0 Speech without captions, 7.5 seconds
Int. your own device — always
No account needed. No upload. No waiting on Wi-Fi.
Your recordings, scripts and projects are files in a folder on your device. Recording, editing, captions and export all happen there.
| What you do | What leaves your device |
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| Record | Nothing. A recording is written to your disk as it's made. |
| Edit and export | Nothing. The video is made on your device. |
| Caption and transcribe | Nothing. The first time, the app downloads a speech model (148 MB), once. |
| Read with voice follow | It depends on your device's speech recognizer. Which ones work offline |
| Sign in | Only for Pro or share links, once accounts arrive. Nothing you record is sent anywhere unless you share it. |
- A crash doesn't cost you the take. Recordings are saved a piece at a time. One that was cut off is finished the next time the app opens.
- Deleting isn't final. What you delete waits in the trash for 30 days, or 7 or 90 if you'd rather.
Int. the box office — day
Free to use. Pay once for more.
- Free. Record and edit as much as you like, and export videos up to 15 minutes long, captions included.
- Pro, $30 once. Videos of any length, up to 4K, on every device you sign in on. No subscription.
Int. the writers' room — soon
What's in the next draft.
Everything above is in the app now. These are being written, and aren't in it yet.
Share links
Send a link instead of a file. Viewers get chapters, captions, a searchable transcript and your questions, and fixing a typo doesn't mean rendering again.
A caption editor
Fix a word, split or merge a caption, nudge its timing.
Accounts and sync
Your scripts, then your recordings and projects, on every device you use.
Answers and grades
Viewers' answers kept per viewer, and scores sent to a learning system over LTI 1.3.
Audio description
Narration of what's on screen for viewers who can't see it, fitted into the pauses in your speech.
A phone as the remote
Start, stop and nudge the prompter from the phone in your hand.