Know The Teleprompter Tools

          teleprompter is a tool to read especially for someone who wants to speak in public. With this tool, the person will look like to speak verbally without using text. Initially the tool is used by television broadcasters in order to deliver the news to television viewers looks like speaking without reading. Therefore, the text displayed in the teleprompter arranged like spoken language, so that the viewers are not bothered by the activities of broadcasters who have bowed their heads to reverse the text of the news is concerned.

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Teleprompter words with capital letters derived from the trade name of a teleprompter company that first developed the electronic equipment in the 1950s.
The word teleprompter without capital letters made ​​public because of trademark names are produced by many companies in different places.
The word teleprompter which is also abbreviated as prompter or prompteur, in addition to use in the United States, also used in France and Germany.

Some other terms or names of the teleprompter:

# Electronic Speech Notes
# Cueing Device
# Idiot Board (slang)
# Autocue

History teleprompter tools

The first teleprompter is just a mechanical devices located near the camera. The text is still in print in the form of paper rolls. TelePrompTer company was found by Fred Barton, Jr., Hubert J. (Hub) Schlafly, and Irving Berlin Kahn in 1950.

Until late 1992, a television show called The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was still using a teleprompter early edition. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Autoscript (teleprompter company based in the UK) pioneered the use of TFT-LCD monitors from the previous use of traditional monitors (CRTs). An increase in technology allow for significant reduction in weight of the camera. So, in which the integrated camera with teleprompter easier to carry anywhere. Later, they also introduced a monitor that has a high brightness level that is able to display text clearly even under direct sun.

In 2005, together with its partners Autoscript Sysmedia, broke new ground by introducing Voice Activated PROMPTING. As the name implies, the workings of the tool is adapted to the speaker’s voice. So, the sooner the speaker read the text presented, the sooner the text is run or changed, and vice versa. This discovery marked the end of an era as well as manual teleprompter.