How to create a Prompter script

To improve the audience’s understanding, it is recommended to use simple language with short sentences.
Everyday communication with other people usually involves simple and easy-to-understand language that differs from that used in books, reports and other written works.
Language that is easy to understand is best understood by the audience and ensures that your content is understood. Clear communication is perceived more professionally by your listeners.

By including regular pauses in the script, you prevent the speaker from losing their breath and falling into a monotone.
A pause can also be used as a stylistic device to emphasize a point.”

Tip:
Write pauses in round brackets (pause) and color the letters red.

Add instructions for non-verbal communication to the script. These can be simple gestures such as (smile), cues to change pace (slow)/(faster) or a call to action (point)/(hold up object) – simply anything that can reinforce the speaker’s words.

Pro Tip:

Write non-verbal instructions in round brackets (smile) and color the letters red.

Pro Tip:

Avoid emojis in text. Even if these appear very modern, they interrupt the reading flow and disturb the reader’s concentration, as has been confirmed in tests. For this reason, emojis, however “nice” they may be, are not supported by WinPlus-IP and are not displayed.

Emphasize particularly important words – use typographical aids such as: Underline, italicize, capitalize and/or color words or letters.

This is a great support for the speaker.

Info:

Professional teleprompter software will transfer your formatting from your script to the teleprompter in exactly the same way.

Tip:

Use bright colors such as yellow, turquoise, light green, etc. Red should be reserved for “instructions” (see tips 1 and 2).

Avoid the use of abbreviations. Each time an abbreviation is used, the speaker must briefly consider how the word is pronounced.
Even common abbreviations can hinder the flow of speech and cause unnecessary difficulties for the speaker.

The teleprompter script is only viewed by the speaker. Use this option to insert difficult words or stresses “as spoken” into the text to avoid stumbling blocks. Example: write “peu à peu” in the prompter as “pö a pö”.

If you are dealing with large numbers over a thousand, it is particularly important to write them in full with a separator in the text instead of presenting them as numbers.
This facilitates readability and comprehensibility

Example:
745,535,842,567 (try to pronounce this number correctly the first time)

better:

sevenhundred and forty-five billion/fivehundred and thirty-five million//eighthundred and forty-two thousand/five hundred and sixty-seven