I tried it out and gave up. For a start, it too long to load. And while it started out well, it soon started becoming really glitchy. It would often hang on sentences and not scroll down in time. This was frustrating for recording. It would be terrible for any live uses. In the end I gave up. But that’s when I discovered the pedal as a scrolling control. This is brilliant. It is shaving off huge amounts of time and means that you can really set the pace as you want. This is the game changer for me. The Prompter and the Pedal are an amazing combination.
What a meta demo, @Cat! You showed the autoscrolling while actually seeing it on screen. Then you mentioned how the software sometimes doesn't recognize the end of a section, and whoops, it happened in real time. I appreciate you filming this as a live demo, and hats off for your master eCamm skills to show the various views. Nicely done!
Thanks, Cat. Perfect presentation - it showed how much is already possible and how much more still has to be done. Definitely, less blank space between the chapters would be better. And as You say, showing the first line of the next chapter would be helpful. I myself prefer Slides for the Teleprompter. You can either time those beforehand and set then a time for them, or move them manually.
Heyyy! A fresh face to me a just stumbled upon near and dear to my interests! Really like the cuts of your jib, vibe, airy humorous vibe, and your authentic self… subscribed! I also looked at this Elgato teleprompter wishing it had the voice scroll but passed on it, but also because you hit a ton of bugs and quirks that I found researching the heck out of this teleprompter. It wasn’t issues with the teleprompter itself but the software itself.
I completely agree with the issues you raised, and I have experienced the same results other than the crashing. I think by the next release, it will hopefully hit the mark. Great video!
Excellent video - thank you. I use the Elgato foot control, but am very excited to try voice sync sometime in the future after a few more of the kinks get ironed out. Greetings!
I'm *so* glad I'm not the only one who has had an issue with it not wanting to advance at the end of a section. It's so frustrating! It completely takes me out of the flow of presenting.
Great video, Cat. You hit everything I've had an issue with. I feel confident that Elgato will eventually make this smooth and consistent. In the meantime, I've been doing everything in one long chapter, and finding ways to indicate new paragraphs or sections (like preceding a new graf with something like a ▪︎Since the new text stays relatively close to what I'd been finishing up, and since the software takes its timing from you, this seems to be working :)
Merci pour cette vidéo très intéressante et merci pour l’ensemble de vos publications sur RU-vid toujours agréables suivre et qui apportent beaucoup de valeur ajoutée 🙂
Thanks for this. We were using the prompter for the first time yesterday and I wondered if voice scroll would work for us as we were filming with the camera and computer a few meters away from the speaker as we were doing a wide shot. We had to have someone other than the speaker control the forwarding as we couldn’t quite nail the speed. A well functioning voice scroll would have helped. But it seems it isn’t quite there yet. Hopefully it improves.
This was very informative. I appreciate how you pointed out the shortcomings of the software. Hopefully by the time I save up the funds to buy the teleprompter that Elgato will have made your suggested improvements. QUESTION: I use a word processor (Pages) to write my scripts. Is it possible to just copy and paste the scrips from it into the teleprompter software like I’m currently doing with PromptSmart Pro?
Hmm, I wonder if someone could make a training mode, where it “learns” (can tweak parameters) your speaking style and how and when you manually scroll, in order to automate it after it has seen enough examples. (Perhaps a more advanced training system would be needed, using eye tracking to match the words you speak… maybe I should look at that Apple Vision Pro developer kit?)
Could you please make a video explaining how you set up your Streamdeck + ? I really struggle with figuring out which functions to put where so it makes sense! Any help much appreciated!
Hi, I have tried the auto-scroll, but it was a bit wonky. Seems it has a hard time, on occasion, getting the auto function working. When this happens, I use the program 'Teleprompter.' This works perfectly in the display mode.
Great video as always! Does the app do the speech recognition locally, or does it have to send your audio to the cloud? In other words, can you be completely offline while using Voice Sync?
Whilst the script is displaying on the prompter can you also have it display and scroll in sync on the computer monitor. So you can change where you are looking if needed?
Not impressed! Not with your video which was great but the voice activation in the software is just unusable. What are they playing at? I have seen much better and usable voice activation on mobile apps. Why cannot Elgato get this right. Thanks for the informative video.
I have been using the voice activation on elgato prompter for some time now. It works well if the microphone is directly in line of sight of your mouth, if you are side ways it’s not so good, depending on your mic pattern of course . I have used it for multiple scripts. The movement is also ok. The software is still in beta, so you need to give it more time to improve functionality and performance
I use Ecamm to switch most views (like the live view of the Stream Deck). The one exception today was that I did record a separate video showing me in my studio and added that in post.
