Using a teleprompter in Russian

Does TellyPrompter follow your voice in Russian?

Yes. Russian is one of the 34 languages TellyPrompter recognises, and one of the twenty it detects from the script itself.

Paste a script written in Russian and the app reads the language from the text and sets recognition to Russian (ru-RU). You can also choose Russian by hand from the language list, on the setup screen or in Settings.

Pause, and it waits. Repeat a line, and it goes back to it. Go off-script, and it waits until you come back to the words on the page, then finds your place again, usually within a few words.

Figures in the script — a year, a price, a count — are matched against their spoken Russian forms in the nominative; a number that a sentence puts into another case may not be matched.

Is the app in Russian?

No. The app's own interface — its buttons, its settings and its messages — is in English. The script, the recognition and the reading are in Russian.

What does the browser need?

Recognition is the browser's, not ours. TellyPrompter asks the speech recognition built into your browser for Russian, so how well Russian is heard depends on your browser's engine. Chrome, Edge and Safari have speech recognition; Firefox does not.

Without it, TellyPrompter can still follow the sound of your voice, or scroll at a steady pace you set. Those two modes work in every browser.

It runs on iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows, in the browser.

Where does your voice go?

We never receive your audio. TellyPrompter uses the speech recognition built into your browser and does not operate a speech service of its own, so no recording of your voice reaches us at any point.

Some browsers implement their speech API by sending audio to their own servers — Chrome's is documented as server-based, which is why dictation there does not work offline. Where your browser works that way, your voice reaches your browser vendor under their privacy policy rather than ours, and what they do with it is governed by their terms.

What does it cost?

TellyPrompter is free to use, with no account and nothing to download. Open tellyprompter.com/app/ in a browser, paste a script and start reading.

Recording is free too. It is not a paid feature, and nothing it produces carries a watermark.

Pro costs £7 a month, £40 a year or £99 once. It is for the cloud script library: a free account syncs up to five scripts between devices, and Pro syncs as many as you write. Recording is not behind it.

Other languages

There are pages like this one on reading in Italian, Spanish, French and Korean. The full list of 34 languages is on the home page.