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Presenting on Zoom

Give your Zoom talk from your own script.

Keep your words near the camera and share only your slides. SAYA follows your speech while your audience watches a separate window.

Download SAYALectures and research talks

Keep your words under the camera.

Under the Camera keeps your script in a small strip near the lens, so you can read while looking toward the people on the call.

SAYA's Under the Camera strip on Windows, showing three lines of a recorded demo talk with spoken words, the current word and upcoming words in different colours.
SAYA for Windows following a recorded demo talk in Under the Camera. Zoom is not shown.

Set up your screen before the call.

Your script stays with you. Zoom gets one window: the slides.

  1. Prepare your talk

    Import a PowerPoint or PDF presentation and add English speaker notes, or write your script in SAYA.

  2. Place your script near the camera

    Move SAYA close to your camera, so reading looks more like talking to the people on the call.

  3. Start presenting

    SAYA opens a separate Audience window that shows your slides.

  4. Share only that window

    In Zoom, choose Share Screen and pick the SAYA Audience window. Do not share your whole desktop: it may expose your notes.

Rehearse, then take questions.

A talk does not end with the last slide.

  1. Rehearse before the call

    Run through your talk with voice following on, and check your microphone and your window layout.

  2. Pause for questions

    Pause voice following while you answer, so an unscripted reply does not move your place in the script.

  3. Resume where you stopped

    When you return to your notes, resume and keep speaking.

SAYA is not affiliated with, endorsed by or integrated with Zoom. Zoom is a trademark of its owner.

Questions

What does my audience see?

If you share the SAYA Audience window, they see that window and your slides. Sharing the whole desktop may expose your notes.

Is SAYA a Zoom app or add-on?

No. SAYA is a separate app that runs next to Zoom. You share its window with Zoom's own screen sharing.

Do I need a second display?

No. You can share the Audience window from one screen. On a Mac, press ⌥⌘A if you need to show that window again.

Do I need to be online?

Your call needs internet. SAYA's speech recognition itself runs on your computer.