Guides · Voice following
A scrolling teleprompter moves at a set speed. Terera, a teleprompter for Windows and Mac, does four things instead: it follows your voice word by word, it waits when you pause, it holds your place when you go off script, and it resumes when you return to the script. Speech recognition runs on your own computer, and voice following works in English.
A scrolling teleprompter moves at a set speed, and you keep up with it. That suits a reading you have rehearsed to a steady rhythm, and Terera has a timed scroll for it, which does not use the microphone. A meeting is different: you stop for a laugh, take a question, or add the point that has just occurred to you.
That is what voice following is for. Terera follows your voice word by word, waits when you pause, holds your place when you go off script, and resumes when you return to the script. You can answer a question without managing the scroll.
The take below is a screen recording of Terera on Windows following a synthetic voice that reads the script shown. The voice is fed to the app’s microphone input directly. It was filmed in Rehearse mode with Audience set to 3 or more, and nothing inside the take is cut, re-timed or sped up.
Transcript, with the words said off script in brackets: Eyes up. It follows your voice word by word. It waits when you pause. It holds your place when you go off script, [Sorry, quick aside. Somebody’s doorbell keeps ringing downstairs. Apparently a courier won’t leave that parcel anywhere sensible. Right.] and resumes when you return to the script.
The same take plays on the home page with its moments marked. The home page also has a simulated demo you can drive yourself, which does not use your microphone.
Other teleprompters make a similar promise. Our dated comparisons set out where each one’s speech recognition runs and what each one does: Terera vs Teleprompter.com, Terera vs Speakflow, Terera vs Moody and Terera vs Onwords.
Terera
USD 89 once, tax included. Three of your own machines, Windows or Mac. Twelve months of updates, and the installed version keeps working after that. A 30-day refund by email.
That is the name many people search under. What Terera does is narrower and easier to check: it follows your voice word by word, waits when you pause, holds your place when you go off script, and resumes when you return to the script.
No. Speech recognition runs on your own computer. Terera needs the internet for setup, when it downloads its speech model, and for periodic licence checks.
Terera does not identify speakers. A headset helps keep other voices out of your microphone.
English. Manual and timed scrolling work in any language.
As a timed teleprompter for lyrics, yes. Voice following is designed for speech and does not sync to singing.
Related guides: reading a teleprompter without moving your eyes, a teleprompter for Microsoft Teams and a teleprompter for scripts that cannot leave the machine. All guides.