Suflyor — a Free Android Teleprompter That Listens and Scrolls the Text

⚡ The gist in 5 seconds - Suflyor is a free open-source teleprompter for Android: it scrolls the text by itself while you speak. - The APK is available in the Releases of the olerast67/voice-teleprompter-android repository; the app works fully offline. - Limitations: requires Android 10+ on 64-bit ARM, about 130 MB of space; speech recognition currently supports only English and Russian. ### 🔍 What was found Suflyor is a voice teleprompter that floats over Instagram, TikTok, or the camera and keeps the text moving with your speech. Speech recognition runs on-device via sherpa-onnx: no cloud, no account, no network latency. The app understands how people read: contractions (don't, it's), numbers written as digits, abbreviations (Mr., Dr.), acronyms (AI, CEO), and filler words like "um." The tracker searches for matches across the entire script, not just the next few words; rare words carry more weight, so the text doesn't jump at every "and." If you re-read a line, the teleprompter returns to it after about two words; a skipped block is caught after three or four words. Pauses and off-script conversation don't move the text. Controls and integrations are also tailored for filming: lock mode ignores touches to the camera, in landscape the window moves toward the lens, and there's a Quick Settings tile in the shade. You can connect volume keys, Bluetooth remotes, rings, clickers, and keyboards. Timer mode — scrolling with a 3-2-1 countdown; sound mode works for scripts in any language. Import: TXT, Markdown, Obsidian, DOCX, ODT, RTF, HTML, and PDF (the latter requires Android 15 or recent Google Play updates on Android 12–14). Requirements: Android 10+ on 64-bit ARM, about 130 MB; tested on a Samsung Galaxy S24 FE. ### 💡 Why it matters This is a tool for Reels, Shorts, and TikTok creators: the phone stays in hand, the text is always in view, and the microphone isn't taken away by the teleprompter — audio in the video is preserved. Privacy is confirmed architecturally: the app has no internet permission at all, audio is used only during the session, never recorded or sent. The accessibility service is active only while it's running, doesn't read screen content, and there are no analytics, ads, accounts, or trackers. ### 🧩 Context Suflyor (from the Russian "суфлёр," meaning prompter) was created for the scenario where a presenter holds the phone, reads a couple of lines to the camera, glances back at the text, and keeps going. Base languages are English and Russian; the interface language follows the system, while the recognition language can be selected automatically based on the script's letters or manually. Other languages are on the roadmap. Installation is via APK, and on Android 13+ enabling accessibility requires allowing restricted settings. Scripts belong to the user: they can be shared, duplicated, exported as a zip of Markdown files, and restored on another phone.

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