If you present from PowerPoint, you already have a script — it’s sitting in your speaker notes. The problem is reading it without looking away from your audience. Glance down at a second monitor and you break eye contact; paste your notes into a separate teleprompter app and you’re maintaining two copies of the same thing.
Here’s how to turn PowerPoint itself into a teleprompter, and how ScriptAssist makes it work on camera.
The hard way: PowerPoint Presenter View
Presenter View shows your notes on one screen while the audience sees the slides on another. It works, but it has two real limitations for virtual presentations:
- Your eyes go down and to the side. The notes live on a second monitor, so reading them pulls your gaze away from the camera — exactly the “I’m reading” look you’re trying to avoid.
- It’s awkward to share. On Zoom, Teams, or Webex you have to carefully share only the slide-show window, or your audience sees your notes too.
The better way: a teleprompter beside your camera
A teleprompter solves the eye-contact problem by putting the words next to the lens, so reading and looking at your audience become the same motion. ScriptAssist does this with your PowerPoint deck directly:
- Open your
.pptx. ScriptAssist reads the speaker notes from every slide. - Choose On-Camera Script. Your script appears in a slim strip beside your webcam.
- Present and share your whole screen. The strip is hidden from screen capture on Windows, so your audience sees your slides and your face — never the words.
Because the script comes straight from your notes and follows your slides as you advance them, there’s nothing to copy, paste, or keep in sync.
Staying invisible on screen share
The piece most teleprompters miss: when you share your screen, anything on it is visible to everyone. ScriptAssist’s on-camera script and slide overlay are marked to be excluded from screen capture, so they stay on your side of the call even during a full-screen share — and they don’t show up in the recording either.
Where to go from here
That’s the core workflow. If you want to go further, ScriptAssist can draft a spoken script per slide with AI, follow your voice and scroll hands-free with on-device VoiceSync, and round-trip your script through Word for review.
Want to try it on your own deck? See plans and start a free trial, or read more about the PowerPoint teleprompter.