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Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

634 points david927 | 1 comments | 24 Aug 24 22:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.342s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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graphoarty ◴[25 Aug 24 11:15 UTC] No.41346417[source]▶
I built a simple teleprompter web app to help record talking head videos with the front camera of my MacBook this week.

Link: https://camprompter.app

The insight is that if you read text from a tiny enough box right below the front camera on the MacBook, it appears as if you're talking to the camera.

Boom! Easy Eye Contact With Camera.

I scrunched up the Notion app and placed it as well as I could in the safe area to test it out for a couple of videos, but then I just wrote a web app because it seemed like the next logical step.

Once you paste the script and hit play... you can only see the text in the safe area so your eyes don't wander.

Fire up PhotoBooth and try it out!

PS: Press F for fullscreen.

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1. yencabulator ◴[26 Aug 24 21:31 UTC] No.41362416[source]▶
Real teleprompters have a person feeding the text at the perfect rate, for pauses, and so on. It'd be an interesting experiment to feed the audio to Whisper or such, roughly match it to the text shown, and control speed based on that.