Talk2Camera

Read while you walk. Switch cameras. Keep recording.

The teleprompter that keeps up with you — and lets you show what you are talking about without ending the take.

One recording, one file. The camera changes at the marker; the take does not.

It starts with the teleprompter

The script scrolls as you speak. Pause and it waits; skip a sentence and it catches up. Push it to full screen and it covers the camera, so you are reading rather than watching yourself — with you still in frame behind the words. Recognition runs on the device.

What it looks like in your hand

What happens when you tap switch

  1. 01
    You tap switch
    The recording does not stop. Nothing about the file changes.
  2. 02
    The other camera opens
    On hardware that cannot run both at once, a held frame covers the gap so the timeline never stalls.
  3. 03
    Frames route to the new camera
    The encoder was never stopped, so there is no second file to join and no clip boundary to hide.
  4. 04
    You stop, and it is one clip
    Ready to trim, caption and publish. Nothing to stitch first.

A production kit that fits in a pocket

Write it, read it, shoot it, cut it and publish it — without moving the file to a computer.

A composite you can argue with

One figure, with every input that fed it and its weight shown beside it. Described as a coaching heuristic from what the recording shows — not a measurement of you.

Eye contact and framing

How much of the take you spent looking at the lens, your longest look away, and how steady your framing was. When no face is found it reports zero rather than estimating.

Delivery metrics

Pace in words per minute, filler-word count, and how much of your script you covered. Measured on the device from the take itself.

One-tap platform connect

Sign in to YouTube, Twitch or Facebook and the app creates the broadcast for you.

Record and stream at once

Start and stop the recording without touching the stream. Camera switching works mid-stream too.

Stream to any RTMP server

Paste the URL and key from your platform’s live dashboard — YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, Instagram or your own server. Reconnects automatically with backoff.

Export subtitles as .srt

A separate subtitle file for platforms that want one, instead of burning the words into the picture.

Share, or save to your photos

Send the export anywhere, save it to your photo library, or take the original unedited file somewhere else untouched.

Cancel an export

Stop a long export mid-run. When it finishes it tells you what actually happened — re-encoded or copied, at what size, and whether the frame was cropped.

No re-encoding when nothing needs it

A plain trim that already matches the preset copies its frames instead of compressing them again — faster, and no generation of quality lost for nothing.

Platform export presets

TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn, each with its own resolution cap, bitrate and duration guidance. The vertical feeds get a 9:16 frame; the others keep your shape.

Thumbnail and title help

Candidate frames scored for sharpness, exposure and whether you are looking at the lens, plus title suggestions from your script.

Attach an audio track

Lay music, a voiceover or a cleaned-up re-record under the edit, positioned where you want it. Preview and export both honour it.

Two-track audio with level lines

Your take’s sound and an attached track, each with a line you drag across its waveform — the way a mixer works, not a fader. The bars redraw at the level you set, so a bed pulled under speech looks quieter as well as sounding it.

Background blur and replacement

On-device person segmentation — no green screen. Blur the room or replace it with a colour or a photo, including broadcast green and blue for keying elsewhere. If the device cannot produce a clean matte the export finishes with the original background and tells you.

Looks and colour

Five presets with a strength control, plus exposure, contrast, saturation, temperature and tint. Two slots to save your own graded look and recall it on any take.

Merge takes

Join several recordings with a hard cut or a dissolve.

Remove pauses

Long silences are found and proposed as cuts you review one at a time, with undo. Nothing is removed without you agreeing to it.

Cut a selected stretch

Drag across the waveform and cut. The timeline closes up, captions retime, and the cut stays switchable off afterwards.

Trim on a zoomable timeline

Pinch to zoom. At full magnification one pixel is milliseconds, so an in-point lands on the frame you meant.

A take remembers its script

The script is saved beside the recording, so captions and title suggestions still work when you open that take next week — not only right after shooting it.

Storage accounting

What your recordings cost, counted separately from exports and other files, with a warning before the disk becomes the problem — including how much room is actually left.

Select and delete

Tick several takes and remove them together. The confirmation says plainly that exports are separate files and stay where you put them.

Recordings library

Every take with its own poster frame, length, size and date. Open any of them straight into the editor.

Audio-only takes

Record just the sound, with the same prompter and the same pause behaviour.

Pause and resume

Pause mid-take and pick it up again. The paused time is excluded from the file rather than appearing as dead air.

Microphone selection

Choose your input. Switching it re-routes live capture without interrupting a take.

Manual camera controls

ISO and shutter, exposure bias, exposure lock, manual focus, tap to focus, white-balance lock and stabilisation. Every control is re-checked against the incoming camera on a switch, so a value cannot carry over out of range.

Resolution and frame rate

720p, 1080p and 4K at 24, 30 or 60 fps. Only what the camera actually reports is offered — nothing greyed in that the device cannot do.

Switch styles

Instant cut, a 100 ms quick blend, or a 250 ms dissolve. The style shapes the reveal; the recording never stops either way.

Keyboard and controller remote

Scroll, pause, change speed and start recording from a Bluetooth keyboard or a game controller.

Rig Mode

Prompter only — full screen, no camera, nothing recorded. It never even asks for camera access.

Mirroring

Horizontal and vertical, for beam-splitter teleprompter rigs.

Prompter size and cover mode

Set how much of the screen the script takes. At the top of the range it covers the camera entirely and you show through behind it — for people who would rather not watch themselves while reading.

Prompter colours

Text, background, and a separate colour for words you have already said — guarded so a colour picked for one background cannot vanish on the other.

Typography and accessibility

Text size, line spacing, side margins and alignment, with five faces including Lexend and OpenDyslexic. Right-to-left scripts lay out correctly without a setting.

Manual and timed scrolling

Drive the script yourself, or set a pace and let it run. Progress bar with the time remaining.

Cloud script sync

Your scripts follow you between devices, reconciled by one shared ruleset on both platforms. Part of a subscription.

Import a script

Bring in plain text, Markdown, Word (.docx) or PDF. PDF text is extracted on the device, and it says so plainly when it meets an encrypted file or a scan with no text layer.

Script library

Write, edit and search your scripts. Favourites, folders, word count and an estimated read time on every one.

Apple Watch remote

Scroll, pause, change speed and start recording from your wrist.

Publish to YouTube

Upload and post without leaving the editor.

Captions

Burn captions into the video or export an .srt, with style controls and per-line timing.

Transparent background export

A real alpha channel, so another editor can drop you straight onto their footage — no keying, no green spill.

Voice follow

The script scrolls as you speak. Pause and it waits; skip a sentence and it catches up. Recognition runs on the device.

Switch cameras mid-recording

Switch between front and rear cameras while recording. The file stays one continuous clip — no cut, no second file, nothing to stitch.

What each platform actually does

Some things work differently on iOS and Android, and one or two are not possible at all. Rather than a tick and a cross, here is what actually happens.

FeatureiOSAndroidNotes
A composite you can argue withiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Eye contact and framingiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Delivery metricsiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
One-tap platform connectiOSNeeds backendAndroidNeeds backendBuilt and tested, but it needs the Talk2Camera service to be running. Manual RTMP streaming works today and is unaffected. Built and tested, but it needs the Talk2Camera service to be running. Manual RTMP streaming works today and is unaffected.
Record and stream at onceiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Stream to any RTMP serveriOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Export subtitles as .srtiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Share, or save to your photosiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Cancel an exportiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
No re-encoding when nothing needs itiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Platform export presetsiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Thumbnail and title helpiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Attach an audio trackiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Two-track audio with level linesiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Background blur and replacementiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Looks and colouriOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Merge takesiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Remove pausesiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Cut a selected stretchiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Trim on a zoomable timelineiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
A take remembers its scriptiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Storage accountingiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Select and deleteiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Recordings libraryiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Audio-only takesiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Pause and resumeiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Microphone selectioniOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Manual camera controlsiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Resolution and frame rateiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Switch stylesiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Keyboard and controller remoteiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Rig ModeiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
MirroringiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Prompter size and cover modeiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Prompter coloursiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Typography and accessibilityiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Manual and timed scrollingiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Cloud script synciOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Import a scriptiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Script libraryiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Apple Watch remoteiOSAvailableAndroidNot availableKeyboard and game-controller remotes work on Android; there is no Wear OS app yet.
Publish to YouTubeiOSNeeds backendAndroidNeeds backendBuilt and tested, but it needs the Talk2Camera publishing service to be running. Until it is deployed, export the file and upload it yourself — everything else in the editor is unaffected. Built and tested, but it needs the Talk2Camera publishing service to be running. Until it is deployed, export the file and upload it yourself.
CaptionsiOSAvailableAndroidWorks differentlyiOS times captions from the speech in the recording. No Android API transcribes a recorded file with word timings, so Android times them from where you actually reached in the script when voice follow was on — and estimates otherwise. The editor tells you which of the two this take got.
Transparent background exportiOSAvailableAndroidNot possibleAndroid’s video encoders have no dependable way to store an alpha channel, so this is not offered rather than being faked. Use the broadcast green or blue background instead and key it in your editor.
Voice followiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
Switch cameras mid-recordingiOSAvailableAndroidAvailable

Worth reading before your next take

Free, and the camera is all of it

Recording, camera switching, the teleprompter, trimming, captions and export are free forever. A subscription adds 4K, 60fps, AI auto-edit and cloud sync.

Switch cameras. Keep recording.