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Speechius
The teleprompter that actually listens
131 followers
The teleprompter that actually listens
131 followers
Speechius listens to your voice and scrolls your script for you - speed up, slow down, go off-script, it keeps pace. No foot pedal, no fixed speed to chase. It works live in any tool - real webinars, Zoom, Meet, Teams, OBS - and stays hidden on screen-share. Fully on-device (private). One-time price, no subscription. macOS & Windows.
I love this idea - it is perfect for me when I am recording for my narrative podcast. However, I can't get it to work with my pod microphone. Apparently on a Mac dictation audio needs to be 2 channels only but my mic puts out more channels. I can get it to work with a bluetooth headset, but not the mic for which I would like it. I have tried to make an aggregate in midi etc but I don't really know what I am doing and wasn't able to get it to work. I am posting this in case there are others who want to use audio setups with Speechius that have this issue.
@oliver_bogler Thank you for flagging this, that is really helpful! I use a Shure SM7B myself, which is a
single channel setup, so this never showed up in my own testing. You are right about the cause. Speechius currently hands the microphone signal to macOS speech recognition exactly as the device delivers it, and anything with more than two channels is not handled. That is on my side to fix, not something you should have to solve with aggregate devices. I am working on a fix that mixes the input down to mono before recognition, and I will get it out as soon as I can. I will reply here once it ships.
@syntacops Thanks - that is great. I look forward to the new version and will in the meantime purchase the tool. FYI I use a SSL2 MKII for my mic - pretty standard outputs, I believe, but wanted to mention it in case its helpful.
@oliver_bogler That detail is genuinely useful, thank you. The SSL 2 MkII exposes its
stereo loopback as two extra input channels, so macOS sees a four channel device, and
that is exactly what the recognition chokes on. My own interface (Steinberg UR22mkII) only reports two channels, which is why I never ran into it. The fix will mix the input down before recognition and ignore the loopback channels. I will let you know here as soon as the release is out. Thank you for the support in the meantime.
@ganesh_ravikumar Thanks Ganesh, that's exactly the case it was built for. Skipping a word or two doesn't throw it off, it just keeps following you. And for live sessions there's a mode that keeps the window out of screen recordings and screen shares, so your audience never sees it. What kind of sessions are you planning?
the "machine follows u instead of u following the machine" line is honestly the whole product. feels obvious once u hear it.
@ishm6m Thanks 🙏 That's the sentence I kept coming back to while building it. Funny thing is it only feels obvious afterwards - making the script actually keep up with how people really talk took most of the work.
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This seems to be pretty useful (I saved it into my "Interesting" folder). Might use it in the future :)
@busmark_w_nika Thank you, Nika! The "Interesting" folder is a good place to be :)
Whenever you do record or present something, there's a 14-day trial (no card needed) - I'd genuinely like to know whether it keeps up with how you actually speak.