teleprompter

English

From tele- +‎ prompter; genericized trademark, originally styled TelePrompTer.

teleprompter (plural teleprompters)

A device placed near or on a television camera that displays scrolling text, allowing a person to read a script while appearing to speak spontaneously to the camera.
- 1984 April 20, Berkeley Breathed, Bloom County‎^[1] (comic):
  Ahem ... GRBLB BLABT UNT MIT SPEEB!! OOT PIFFOO BLABOO... [pause] Would someone please give the Teleprompter a swift kick...
- 2009 March 6, Mark Knoller, CBS News‎^[2]:
  He was more at ease in reading his speech off the dual screens of a teleprompter than looking up and down at a speech text on his lectern.

device that displays scrolling text

Arabic: شَاشَة الْقِرَاءَة f (šāšat al-qirāʔa)
Catalan: teleprompter m, apuntador òptic m, teleapuntador m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 提字器 (tízìqì)
Finnish: teleprompteri (fi)
French: prompteur (fr) m, télésouffleur (fr) m, téléprompteur (fr)
German: Prompter m
Hungarian: súgógép (hu)
Indonesian: pengial baca, layar baca (id) (literally “reading screen”)
Irish: uathleideoir m
Italian: gobbo elettronico (it) m, suggeritore elettronico m
Japanese: プロンプター (puronputā), テレプロンプター (terepuronputā)
Korean: 텔레프롬프터 (tellepeurompeuteo)
Malay: telepanduan
Polish: prompter (pl) m
Portuguese: teleponto m, teleprompter (pt) m
Russian: телесуфлёр (ru) m (telesufljór), телепро́мптер (ru) m (teleprómptɛr), телепро́мтер m (teleprómtɛr)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: блѐсиметар m

Roman: blèsimetar (sh) m
Spanish: teleprónter m, teleapuntador m, autocue m
Swedish: teleprompter (sv) c
Ukrainian: суфле́р m (suflér)
Welsh: teleweinydd m

teleprompter m (plural teleprompters or teleprompter)

teleprompter
- 2025 September 24, Alejandra Jaramillo, “Trump exige investigación sobre presunto "triple sabotaje" en la ONU”, in CNN en Español‎^[3]:
  En redes sociales afirmó que una serie de fallos técnicos, que incluyeron una escalera mecánica detenida, un fallo del teleprompter y problemas de audio, fueron actos deliberados para socavar su credibilidad.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)