What is Voice mode, and when should you use it?

What Voice mode does

The mechanics are deliberately plain. You open a script, switch to Voice mode, and start the take. The words scroll at the speed you set, exactly as they would in the other two modes, and the app captures sound through the device microphone. What you get at the end is an audio file rather than a video one.

The reason this is a separate mode rather than a setting is that the output changes what the screen needs to do. Camera mode has to show you a live preview so you can check framing. Voice mode has no framing to check, so the whole screen belongs to the script — which is the right trade when nobody is going to see you.

The three cases it was built for

Podcast segments. Scripted intros and outros, sponsor reads, solo talk segments, and pickup lines. These are the parts of an episode that are genuinely written down, and they are the parts where reading without sounding read is the whole skill. For structuring a script that reads as speech, our podcast teleprompter guide covers the format.

Voiceover and narration. A narration pass for a video that gets edited later, an e-learning module, an audiobook sample, a demo reel take. In all of these the audio is the deliverable, so Voice mode records exactly that.

Vocals over your own lyrics. Voice mode puts the lyrics and the recorder on the same screen, so one device handles the whole take. The teleprompter for singers guide covers lyric formatting and scroll speed for a fixed tempo.

Voice mode versus Prompter mode plus a separate recorder

Prompter mode and Voice mode look similar on screen — both are a full-screen scrolling script with no camera preview. The difference is whether the app is recording.

Prompter mode is the right choice when something else is already capturing the sound: a condenser microphone into an audio interface into a DAW, a dedicated field recorder, a webcam, or a video call. Prompter mode records nothing, so the chain you already run keeps full control of the sound.

Voice mode is the right choice when you want the app to be the recorder. That saves the second device and the sync step, and the sound comes from the device microphone. Which trade-off suits you depends on what the take is for.

Where Voice mode fits, and where to pair it with other tools

Voice mode is a teleprompter that records audio. For a few jobs it works best as one part of a bigger setup.

• Multitrack or multi-guest recording. A conversational show with guests belongs in dedicated podcast recording software, with the app in Prompter mode showing your notes beside it.
• A master vocal or a finished commercial read. The device microphone is convenient. For a client delivery or a release master, record through a studio microphone into an interface, with the app in Prompter mode showing the words.
• Hands-free scroll control. Voice commands run in Prompter mode, while Voice mode uses the microphone to record. Set the scroll speed before the take and drag the text by hand to adjust.
• Editing. Voice mode captures the take. Trimming, levelling and mixing happen in your audio editor.
• Video you may want later. If there is any chance the session becomes a video, record it in Camera mode, which captures the audio as well.

How to switch to Voice mode

Open Teleprompter-Scrolling Scripts on iPhone, iPad, or Mac and open a project. The project screen shows three cards: Camera, Prompter and Voice. Choose Voice to see the script with the audio recording controls. On Mac, the floating window opened from Voice mode records audio too, while the script stays on top of other apps.

Voice mode uses the same script as the other two modes, so you can rehearse in Prompter mode and record the same text in Voice mode. It is free like the rest of the app, with no account. For a side-by-side of all three, see Camera mode vs Prompter mode vs Voice mode.