How To Make A Teleprompter Your Best Friend

By Jessica Parker


Let us admit it; delivering a speech in front of an audience usually causes too much stress for us. Others even admit that they are more afraid of public speaking than they are of death. Sounds funny but that is the truth. But today we will talk about a simple machine that lightens up the burden of delivering a speech. The machine is called a presidential teleprompter.

Teleprompters usually consist of a camera, a mirror, and a monitor. These three components work hand in hand to achieve that natural eye contact that reporters on TV are giving. Mostly a monitor sits below the mirror and displays the document. The text is echoed in the mirror, in which the speaker can see.

Some speakers might think that with a teleprompter they do not have to do their rehearsals. That is actually a counterproductive thing to do. Even with Teleprompters you still need to prepare your delivery for the teleprompter to work to your advantage.

The monitor displays the document with the support of program. Most documents are composed by word processing programs like Microsoft and WPS word and will be imported to the program. A video graphic array will be used to transfer documents to the teleprompter. The documents are displayed in reverse on the monitor so that the reader could read them. Most of the times, the reversal is made in the program.

A prompter should give you more reason to practice your talk as you shall not be required to memorize them. Using it to help you make a more creative delivery of your piece is what Teleprompter was designed to do.

With these machines, you would be spending more of your time mastering your delivery. These are where you will gain the confidence. When you know you are going to deliver quality talk right from the start your confidence level will surely get higher.

I am not saying that speakers cannot give quality talks by memorizing their piece; it is just that it takes more time and effort on our part. There are a lot of great speeches that are delivered in a very great way. I am just saying that they can do the same in a shorter amount of time with the help of a machine.

Use the auto cue to become more efficient in your job. Do not think that because there is a prompter you will have to lessen the amount of effort that you should be investing in your speeches. It can be a great device if used properly but it can also betray you when you are not using it in the way that it was intended to be.

This technology is making the lives of the speakers, actors and even business leaders that deliver talks for a maximum impact. It is a great tool to help boost the effectiveness of the speech, whether you are looking to motivate your team for them to become more productive. Great speaking opportunities were made possible thanks to this simple machine. Thanks to them the speakers are not freed from the burden of memorizing their speech.




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