You speak to your prompter.

Your hands are the wrong tool

When you record alone, every control you need lives somewhere you are not looking. A key on the keyboard, a button on the screen, a phone on the desk. Each time you reach for one, your eyes leave the camera and your posture changes, and the next few seconds of the take are spent getting back into it.

Mirrento already follows your voice: the text moves when you speak and waits when you stop. The next step was obvious. If it is listening anyway, it can listen for instructions too.

What you can say

Say the wake word, then the command. The default wake word is "prompter", and there is no need to pause between the two, the same way you talk to a voice assistant.

• "prompter, next": moves to the start of the next chapter.
• "prompter, previous": moves to the start of the previous chapter.
• "prompter, again": back to the start of the chapter you are in. The one you will use most.
• "prompter, start over": back to chapter 1.
• "prompter, chapter three": jumps straight to chapter 3. Numbers work as digits or words.
• "prompter, hook two": jumps to the chapter titled "Hook 2". Handy when you record several openings and pick the best one later.
• "prompter, load next": loads the next script in your library. Not while recording, so a stray phrase can never swap the script mid-take.

French works out of the box too: "prompteur, suivant", "reprends", "recommence à zéro", "chapitre deux", "script suivant".

Your own words, in your own language

Every phrase is yours to change, in Settings, Voice commands. Each action can have up to ten phrases, in any language you speak. If "next" collides with a word that appears all the time in your scripts, replace it with something you never say on camera.

You can also turn the wake word off. A command then only counts after a short pause, so the prompter does not react to the word "next" in the middle of a sentence you are reading.

Why it does not misfire

A prompter that jumps every time you read the word "again" would be worse than no voice control at all. Three things keep it calm:

• The wake word. By default nothing happens without it.
• Pauses. Without the wake word, a bare command word only counts after a short silence.
• No double fire. The same command said twice in quick succession counts once.

It stays on your Mac

The listening runs on your Mac, with Apple's on-device speech recognition. Your voice is not sent to a server to make this work.

If your hands keep leaving the frame, the 7-day trial is enough to record one script with your voice in charge and count the times you no longer reach for the keyboard.