Practise your speech
Paste your finished speech to rehearse it with a scrolling teleprompter, hear it read back, and print numbered cue cards for the day. It all runs in your browser: nothing is sent to us or saved.
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Teleprompter keys: space to pause or resume, up and down arrows to change speed, Esc to close. Read-aloud uses your device's own voices and needs no internet connection on most phones and computers.
How to rehearse in the last week
- Read it aloud, standing up. Silent reading hides the clunky sentences. Use read-aloud once to hear where the long sentences trip up, then cut them.
- Run it on the teleprompter at your real pace. About 130 words a minute leaves room for laughs. If you can't keep up, the speech is too dense, not you too slow.
- Switch to prompt-only cue cards. Once you know the shape, practise from the first few words of each sentence. You'll sound like you're talking rather than reading.
- Do one full run in front of someone. Ideally someone who'll be in the room and will tell you if a line won't land. Our room-safety check helps here too.
On the day, carry printed cue cards even if you plan to use your phone: batteries die and screens lock. Number them, and punch a hole in the corner with a treasury tag through if you're worried about dropping them.
More help: how to calm nerves before a speech, and time your speech first if you're not sure of its length.