Notes on a video call, without the eyes that say “I am reading notes”.
A call is the hardest place to use a prompter. Everyone else on the grid is looking at their camera, and the moment your eyeline sits somewhere else, it shows — on a face cropped to a small tile, it shows a lot.
Why calls are harder than filming
When you record alone, you control the whole frame: you can place the script under the lens and move the rig back. On a call you are stuck with a laptop, a webcam at the top of the screen, and the other participants occupying the middle of it — which is precisely where your notes want to be.
The second problem is control. Reaching for a scroll wheel or tapping a key is visible, audible on an open mic, and reads as distraction. Anything that needs a hand is a tell.
How to actually do it
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Put the script directly under the webcam
On a laptop that means the top strip of your screen, not the middle. The closer the text is to the lens, the smaller the eyeline offset — and on a call, a small offset is the difference between “engaged” and “reading something”.
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Float it over the meeting window
VoiceCue runs in a floating window that stays on top of Zoom, Google Meet, Teams or FaceTime, so you do not have to give up screen space or alt-tab away from the faces you are talking to.
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Scroll with your voice, not your hands
No key presses, no wheel, no visible reaching. You talk, it moves. On a call this matters more than anywhere else, because every control gesture is on camera.
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Keep it to prompts, not prose
Full sentences pull you into reading them. On a live call, short prompts — the number you must not get wrong, the three points, the name of the person who asked — keep you talking rather than reciting.
What matters here
VoiceCue does a lot of things. These are the ones that change the outcome for this particular job.
- Floating overlay
- The whole use case. The script sits above the meeting window instead of behind it, so nothing is hidden and nothing needs switching.
- Voice-activated scrolling
- No visible controls. On a call, the gesture is the giveaway as much as the eyeline.
- Display customisation
- A narrow, low-opacity window sitting right under the webcam beats a big readable block in the middle of the screen.
- Works without an account
- Useful when the call was scheduled twenty minutes ago and there is no time to sign up for anything.
Questions about zoom & video calls
The things people ask before their first take.
Can other people on the call see my teleprompter?
Not unless you share your screen. The overlay sits on your own display, above the meeting window. If you do need to present, move the script to a second display or shrink it outside the shared region before you start sharing — screen shares capture whatever is inside the shared area.
Does it work with Zoom, Google Meet and Teams?
Yes. The floating window sits above any application, so it does not integrate with — or depend on — any particular meeting platform. That also means there is no plugin to install and nothing for IT to approve.
Will my microphone pick up the teleprompter?
There is nothing to pick up. Voice scrolling listens to you; it does not play audio. The recognition runs locally on the phone.
Is it obvious that I am reading during a call?
It depends almost entirely on where the text sits. Directly under the webcam, at a size you can read without leaning in, it reads as normal screen-looking — which is what everyone on a video call is doing anyway. Off to the side on a second monitor, it is obvious. We went through the geometry here.
Try it before you script anything.
Paste a paragraph, read it out loud, and see whether the text keeps up.
Get it on Google Play