Use cases · Auditions
Teleprompter for Self-Tape Auditions
Self-tapes are now the first round for almost every role. Avocado keeps your sides at the camera lens so your eyes never drift — giving casting directors the direct, present performance that gets callbacks.
Why it works for Auditions. Four things you get the moment you open it.
Invisible on Auditions
Left out of every screen share, recording and screenshot, whatever you share.
Right under the camera
Notch Mode puts the words where your eyes should be, so you read toward the lens.
Scrolls with your voice
Speak and it moves. Pause and it waits. No clicker, no second person.
Private and on-device
Speech recognition and the AI features run on your Mac, and it works offline.
In detail
Avocado for Auditions
The casting industry has largely moved to self-tapes as the default first round, and the technical quality of your tape — particularly your gaze direction — has become a real differentiator. Eye contact that's even two degrees off the lens reads as uncertainty or distraction on screen. The traditional workaround of taping sides to the wall beside the camera is immediately visible to casting directors who watch hundreds of tapes a week. Avocado positions your script in the MacBook notch, directly at the camera, so your eyeline stays locked on the lens while you read. This works especially well for cold reads and same-day sides where full memorization isn't realistic — you get the appearance of a memorized performance without burning your focus on recall instead of the scene. Use Script Markers to break multi-scene sides into labeled sections so you can jump between them instantly without scrolling between takes. The prompter is completely invisible in your recorded video — your tape looks exactly like every other professional self-tape.
Questions about Avocado for Auditions.
Avocado can display sides or scripts during a self-tape, but it's best used for reference rather than word-for-word reading — casting directors can often detect when eyes are tracking text. Some actors use it for cold reads or commercial copy where exact phrasing matters and the performance is less about subtext.
Avocado can display your scene partner's lines and stage directions in the notch above the MacBook camera, letting you react to cues without a reader in the room. Your sides stay visible in your eyeline so you're not glancing down at printed pages during the take.
Used for cold reads or complex commercial copy, a teleprompter helps you stay accurate without line anxiety — which often reads as more natural, not less. Avocado's voice-activated scrolling means the text follows your performance pace rather than forcing you to keep up with a timer.
Commercial copy is one of the strongest use cases for a home teleprompter — the lines are exact and delivery speed matters. Display your copy in Avocado's notch, record in QuickTime or any camera app, and voice-activated scrolling keeps the text advancing as you deliver. Avocado is excluded from the recording, so the footage is clean.
Your next take starts under the lens.
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