Teleprompter for Riverside — AI Voice Tracking on Any Plan, Including Free

Works on Every Riverside Plan — Free, Standard, Pro

The biggest gap in Riverside's teleprompter is plan-tier lock-in. Free and Standard plan users get nothing. Pro plan users pay $29/month forever.

ShareSpeak is a separate desktop app that doesn't care about your Riverside plan:

• Riverside Free? ShareSpeak works.
• Riverside Standard ($19/mo)? ShareSpeak works.
• Riverside Pro ($29/mo)? ShareSpeak works — and replaces their built-in teleprompter with voice tracking.
• Riverside Business (enterprise)? Same — runs alongside.

If you only upgraded to Pro for the teleprompter access, you can downgrade to Standard and save $120/year — using ShareSpeak's $12.50 lifetime overlay instead.

AI Voice Tracking for Long-Form Interview Pacing

Riverside's built-in teleprompter is a fixed-speed scroller — you set a pace, the text moves. Riverside's AI features (Magic Audio for noise reduction, Magic Clips for short-form repurposing) operate on the recording after the fact, not on the live teleprompter during it.

For 60-90 minute interview shows — Riverside's primary use case — fixed-speed scroll breaks down fast:

• Guest tangents pull you off your scripted question order
• Deep-dive moments slow your delivery; script keeps scrolling past you
• Sponsor reads at brand-mandated cadence don't match your interview rhythm
• Q&A segments (when you have a live audience) destroy any pre-set pace

ShareSpeak's AI voice tracking follows your speech in real time. The script advances at your natural pace, pauses when you pause, speeds up through familiar sections, holds your spot when guests take the conversation sideways.

Works for Guests Too — Each Runs Their Own Instance

Riverside deserves real credit here: their teleprompter supports both hosts and guests, which is genuinely rare (StreamYard's only works for the host). For interview shows where you want your expert guest to have their key talking points ready, Riverside's built-in handles that — if you're on the Pro plan.

ShareSpeak's model is per-user: each person on the Riverside call buys their own $12.50 license and runs ShareSpeak on their own laptop. Each guest's script is invisible to the recording and to the other participants. A 4-person panel can have 4 prepared speakers, each with their own ShareSpeak overlay, each running their own personalized prep. Total cost: $50 for the whole panel, forever — vs Riverside Pro at $29/host/month for the same capability.

Invisible to Riverside's Local High-Quality Recording

Riverside's killer feature is local high-quality recording — each participant's webcam captures locally at up to 4K, then uploads to the cloud after the call. The teleprompter and the local recording happen on separate layers, so the teleprompter doesn't appear in the captured webcam track regardless of which solution you use.

ShareSpeak inherits this benefit: it's invisible at the OS level, doesn't appear in the local webcam capture, doesn't appear in the synced cloud-stored output, doesn't appear when you export the final podcast video. Your interview output is clean.

Same Overlay Across Every Tool You Use

Riverside's teleprompter only exists inside Riverside Studio. If your week includes:

• Monday Riverside interview show recording → built-in teleprompter (if Pro plan)
• Tuesday Zoom sponsor call → no teleprompter
• Wednesday Loom async customer video → no teleprompter
• Thursday OBS solo stream → no teleprompter
• Friday StreamYard live multi-stream → starts from scratch with their built-in teleprompter

ShareSpeak runs across all of them with the same OS-level invisibility:

• Riverside Studio — invisible as native overlay
• Squadcast (now Descript) — same approach, same invisibility
• Zencastr — works identically
• Zoom + local recording setup — common low-budget alternative, ShareSpeak works there too
• Microsoft Teams, Google Meet — for non-podcast calls
• OBS, Streamlabs, Restream — for streamed content
• Loom — for async recordings

One $12.50 license. Every podcast and meeting platform across your show's lifetime.

Unlimited Script Size for Real Interview Prep

Browser-based teleprompters (Riverside's, StreamYard's, Restream's) all impose character limits on the script panel. Real interview prep regularly exceeds them:

• 90-minute interview show with deep guest research: 15,000-30,000 characters
• Guest bio facts, quotes from their book, recent essays: adds another 5,000-10,000 characters
• Sponsor reads at brand-approved cadence: 3,000-5,000 characters per episode
• Pre-prepared follow-ups for controversial topics: 3,000-8,000 characters

ShareSpeak has no character limit. Paste 50,000 characters of full interview prep, voice tracking advances you through it naturally across the whole 90-minute session.