# A voice activated teleprompter that floats over your camera

> A voice activated teleprompter that scrolls as you speak and waits when you pause. It floats over the iPhone Camera app, TikTok and Instagram. Free.

Float Script listens as you read and moves your script word by word. Stop to think and it waits. Start again and it carries on from where you are.

[Download on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/id6832469100)

## 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](https://floatscript.app/teleprompter-for-tiktok) or [Instagram](https://floatscript.app/teleprompter-for-instagram), press record and read. Here's the full walkthrough to [read a script while recording](https://floatscript.app/read-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](https://floatscript.app/privacy) 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](https://floatscript.app/online-teleprompter). It follows your voice in Chrome, Edge or Safari.

## Questions

### Does it keep following my voice while the camera records?

Yes. It keeps listening while the iPhone Camera app, TikTok or Instagram records.

### Does it need an internet connection?

Not for languages your iPhone can recognize on its own. For other languages, Apple's servers turn your speech into text, which needs a connection.

### What if someone else is talking, or there's music?

Background voices and music can make it miss words. In a loud place, Fixed speed or AirPods volume work better, because they don't use the microphone.

### Is it free?

Yes. Float Script is free on the App Store, with no ads and no account.

### What are the limits?

Follow my words doesn't work for Chinese, Japanese or Thai scripts. Float Script doesn't record or edit video, so you film in a camera app. It's for iPhone and iPad only.

## More from Float Script

- [Read a script while recording](https://floatscript.app/read-script-while-recording)
- [Teleprompter for TikTok](https://floatscript.app/teleprompter-for-tiktok)
- [Teleprompter for Instagram Reels](https://floatscript.app/teleprompter-for-instagram)
- [Free online teleprompter](https://floatscript.app/online-teleprompter)
- [About Float Script](https://floatscript.app/about)

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Web page: https://floatscript.app/voice-activated-teleprompter