autocue
(ˈɔːtəʊkjuː)
[f. auto-1 + cue n.2]
The name of a script device, placed out of range of the camera, which prints the words to be spoken by a speaker on television as an aid to his memory.
| 1958 I. Brown Words in our Time 22 The autocue is..one of the gadgets introduced by television. The speaker or recorder of news has in front of him a screen over which his text passes. Thus he can read without looking down or fidgeting with papers. 1967 P. Purser Twentymen xi. 70 The revised pieces were then typed up for the Autocue prompting machine. |