How Follow my words keeps your place
While your script floats, Float Script listens through the microphone and uses Apple's speech recognition to turn what you say into words. It compares your last few words with the script and moves to the line you're on.
- Speed up or slow down and it keeps pace, because it follows your words instead of a timer.
- Stop talking and the script stops.
- Skip a few words or add a line of your own, and it picks you up when you're back on the script.
- A dot in the corner of the window turns green while it hears you.
It works while you film, because the window floats over other apps. Open the iPhone Camera app, TikTok or Instagram, press record and read. Here's the full walkthrough to read a script while recording.
When to use Fixed speed or AirPods instead
Following your voice suits most videos. Float Script has two other ways to scroll for the times it doesn't.
| Way to scroll | How it moves | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Follow my words | With your voice, word by word. The mic is on while the script floats. | Most videos, in a quiet room |
| Fixed speed | At the speed you set, with the mic off | Loud places, and scripts in Chinese, Japanese or Thai |
| AirPods volume | Two lines each time you press or swipe your AirPods, with the mic off | Moving on only when you choose to |
Your voice isn't recorded
The microphone runs only in Follow my words, and only while your script is floating. Float Script doesn't record or save your voice. The speech recognition is Apple's: it runs on your iPhone when it can, and otherwise your speech goes to Apple to be turned into text. The privacy policy has the details.
Languages
Follow my words works in the languages Apple's speech recognition supports on your iPhone, apart from Chinese, Japanese and Thai, which are written without spaces between words. Pick your script's language in Float Script's settings. Fixed speed and AirPods volume work with a script in any language.
To try Follow my words on a computer first, use the free online teleprompter. It follows your voice in Chrome, Edge or Safari.