Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
machine that sb. in the TV news control room uses to "roll" news script up or down for the news anchor to read
English answer:
autocue, teleprompter
Added to glossary by
Steffen Walter
Mar 4, 2006 10:27
18 yrs ago
English term
Translator and voiceover actress from HK
Native in: Chinese (Variants: Mandarin, Traditional, Cantonese, Simplified, Sichuanese ) 
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(name of a machine)
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I'd like to know the terminology of the machine that somebody in the TV news control room uses to "roll" news script up or down for the news anchor to read (the speed of script shown on screen can be controlled by rolling the button faster or slower)?
Thank you. Apologies if this question is not relevant to translation.
Thank you. Apologies if this question is not relevant to translation.
Responses
| 4 +7 | autocue |
sergey (X)
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| 5 | Teleprompter |
Refugio
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autocue
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Note added at 6 mins (2006-03-04 10:34:06 GMT)
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Definitions of autocue on the Web:
* an onscreen prompting system to assist in presentations to camera
www.barford.co.uk/htm/glossary4.htm
* prompter: a device that displays words for people to read
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* Autocue are a UK baseed manufacturer of Teleprompter systems. The term Autocue has become used for any head-up prompting system in the UK and Ireland, and has as such become a genericized trademark.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocuer
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Note added at 9 mins (2006-03-04 10:37:19 GMT)
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Teleprompter - AmEZ
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Note added at 6 mins (2006-03-04 10:34:06 GMT)
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Definitions of autocue on the Web:
* an onscreen prompting system to assist in presentations to camera
www.barford.co.uk/htm/glossary4.htm
* prompter: a device that displays words for people to read
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* Autocue are a UK baseed manufacturer of Teleprompter systems. The term Autocue has become used for any head-up prompting system in the UK and Ireland, and has as such become a genericized trademark.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocuer
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Note added at 9 mins (2006-03-04 10:37:19 GMT)
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Teleprompter - AmEZ
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Comment: "Thanks Sergey, Ruth and others for your help."
1 hr
Teleprompter
A teleprompter is a display device that prompts the person speaking with an electronic visual text of a speech or script. Using a teleprompter is similar to the practice of using cue cards. The screen is in front of the lens of the camera, and the words on the screen are reflected to the eyes of the speaker using a one-way mirror (Note that this is only true in principle - when the space behind the lens is covered in a shroud, an ordinary glass pane will work as a one way mirror). ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprompter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprompter
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