French teleprompter that follows your voice
Read French from Paris, Montréal, Brussels, or Geneva — the script scrolls as you speak, waits when you pause, and handles liaison and anglicisms without a setting.
Sayscroll is a teleprompter that tracks spoken French word by word: real-time speech recognition matches your voice against the script, so the text moves at your pace and waits when you pause. It follows Metropolitan, Québécois, Belgian, Swiss, and African French, keeps tracking through English loanwords, and runs in any browser with nothing to install. This page is for English-speaking creators and teams who record in French; the fully localised French site — un téléprompteur, en français, with the recogniser tuned toward French first — is at sayscroll.com/fr.
Which French? Metropolitan, Québécois, and the rest
French varies in vowels, rhythm, and vocabulary across the francophone world. Recognition is trained on all of it, so there is no region to pick.
| Variety | Sound differences | Tracking notes |
|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan (France) | Uvular r, nasal vowels, fast liaison | The largest training set; the Parisian habit of dropping "ne" tracks fine |
| Québécois and Acadian | Diphthongs, affricated t/d ("tsu", "dzi"), distinct vocabulary | "Courriel", "magasiner", "char" track as spoken; "tu" questions ("tu viens-tu?") are fine |
| Belgian and Swiss | "Septante", "nonante", slower rhythm | Write the numbers you actually say — "septante" tracks, "soixante-dix" tracks |
| West and North African French | Rolled r, distinct rhythm, code-switching | Switches to Wolof, Arabic, or English inside a sentence keep tracking |
Liaison, elision, and anglicisms
French speech joins words the page keeps apart: "les amis" sounds like "lezami", "j'ai" swallows a vowel. Recognition produces normal written French from that, so your script can be written normally. Anglicisms — "le weekend", "un call", "le feedback" — are transcribed as you say them and matched in place.
Bonjour à tous et bienvenue sur la chaîne. Aujourd'hui on compare trois micros — le premier est un lavalier à vingt euros, le deuxième un USB, et le troisième, honestly, the one I actually use every day.Writing a French script the prompter reads well
Spelling that mirrors speech tracks better than formal written French.
- Numbers as words: "deux mille vingt-six", "quinze pour cent" — and "septante" or "soixante-dix", whichever you say.
- Accents are ignored for matching ("a" and "à", "ou" and "où" behave the same); keep them for readability.
- Abbreviations as spoken: "par exemple" not "p. ex."; "S-N-C-F" spelled, "ONU" as a word if that is how you say it.
- Spoken register is fine: "j'sais pas", "y a" track if that is how you talk — apostrophes split a word into pieces the matcher consumes one by one.
- Short lines, one idea each, so an ad-lib re-entry is instant.
Who uses a French teleprompter this way
Bilingual Canadian creators, French teachers recording lessons, marketing teams localising a video for France or Québec, and presenters giving a French talk in a second language. The job is the same each time: read French aloud at a natural pace while looking at the lens, with no one on a scroll wheel.
Camera distance, eye line, and the record-in-browser workflow are on the teleprompter for YouTube page; tracking during improvisation is on the voice-controlled teleprompter page. Recording in German too? See the German teleprompter.
Try it in French, or switch to the French site
Paste a short French script on the free teleprompter page and press Present — no account, download, or card. Recording in another language? Every supported language is listed by script on the teleprompter languages page.To read all of this in French, the product, blog, and tools are localised at sayscroll.com/fr.
Frequently asked questions
Does it work with Québécois French?
Yes. Recognition covers Québécois and Acadian French — affricated consonants, diphthongs, and vocabulary like "courriel" or "magasiner" all track — with no region setting.
Does liaison break the tracking?
No. Recognition turns joined speech back into normally written French, so write your script the standard way and read it the natural way.
Can I mix French and English in one script?
Yes. Anglicisms, brand names, and whole English sentences inside a French script are matched in the language you say them, with no toggle. For mostly-French scripts, the French site hints the recogniser toward French first.
Is there a French-language version of the site?
Yes. The product, landing pages, blog, and free tools are fully localised in French at sayscroll.com/fr. This page is the English-language guide for recording in French.
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