Talk2Camera

Everything Talk2Camera does

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

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

What it looks like in your hand

Scripts

  • Script library

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

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • Cloud script sync

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

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable

Teleprompter

  • Voice follow

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

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • Manual and timed scrolling

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

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • Mirroring

    Horizontal and vertical, for beam-splitter teleprompter rigs.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • Rig Mode

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

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • Keyboard and controller remote

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

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • Apple Watch remote

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

    Keyboard and game-controller remotes work on Android; there is no Wear OS app yet.

    iOSAvailableAndroidNot available

Recording

  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • Microphone selection

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

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • Audio-only takes

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

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable

Your recordings

  • Recordings library

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

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable

Editing

  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • Cut a selected stretch

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

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • Merge takes

    Join several recordings with a hard cut or a dissolve.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • Captions

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

    iOS 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidWorks differently
  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • Transparent background export

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

    Android’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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidNot possible
  • Thumbnail and title help

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

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable

Export and publish

  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • Export subtitles as .srt

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

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • Publish to YouTube

    Upload and post without leaving the editor.

    Built 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.

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Live streaming

  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • Record and stream at once

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

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • One-tap platform connect

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

    Built and tested, but it needs the Talk2Camera service to be running. Manual RTMP streaming works today and is unaffected.

    iOSNeeds backendAndroidNeeds backend

Performance coaching

  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • 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.

    iOSAvailableAndroidAvailable
  • 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.

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