How to send a script from ChatGPT to your iPhone teleprompter

You wrote the script with ChatGPT. Now you want it in front of the lens without copying, switching apps, and pasting into a blank page. Rolltake 1.1 takes shared text from the iOS share sheet and turns it into a script, and a Shortcuts action does the same from the clipboard. Both take a few seconds.

Method 1: the share sheet

Ask ChatGPT for short sentences, one idea per line, and a length that fits your video. At a normal pace people speak about 150 words a minute, so a two-minute video is roughly 300 words.

Select just the script, not the whole reply. Rolltake uses the first line of whatever you share as the script's title, so start the selection at the title or the first spoken line, not at "Sure, here's a script".

Choose Share from the menu over the selected text. If Rolltake is not in the row of apps, scroll to the end, tap More, and add it to your favorites.

A short confirmation appears in the share sheet. The next time you open Rolltake, the new script is there and opens in the editor, ready to tidy up.

Tap into the prompter, pick a speed, and record. Fix any line from the editor button inside the prompter.

The same steps work from Mail, Notes, a Safari text selection, or a .txt file in the Files app. Anywhere iOS lets you share text, Rolltake can take it.

If Rolltake doesn't appear in the share sheet

Rolltake accepts text, not links. If you share a web page or a shared-conversation link, iOS hides Rolltake because there is no script text in what you are sharing. Select the words themselves and share those. If an app has no Share option for selected text, copy it and use method 2 or 3.

Method 2: paste over a script

Copy the reply in ChatGPT. In Rolltake, create a script, open the editor menu, and choose Replace with Clipboard. It is quicker than selecting and deleting placeholder text, and it works for updating an existing script after another round of edits in ChatGPT. Copy All in the same menu sends the script back the other way.

Method 3: a one-tap shortcut

Rolltake adds a "Create Rolltake Script" action to the Shortcuts app. It takes text and an optional title, creates the script, and opens Rolltake.

Open Shortcuts, create a new shortcut, and add two actions: Get Clipboard, then Create Rolltake Script with the clipboard as its text. Name it something like "Clipboard to prompter". Run it from the home screen, the Action button on iPhones that have one, or by asking Siri.

You can also say "Create a script in Rolltake" to Siri, or search for the action in Spotlight, and dictate or paste the text when asked.

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A prompt that writes a readable teleprompter script

ChatGPT's default style is written prose with long sentences, which is hard to read aloud. Ask for spoken English and line breaks. A prompt that works:

Write a 90-second talking-head script about [TOPIC] for [AUDIENCE]. Write it to be spoken, not read: short sentences, contractions, one idea per line, a blank line between thoughts. About 220 words. Start with a one-line title, then the script. No headings, no stage directions, no emoji.

Read it aloud once before you record and cut anything you would not say in conversation. The script templates show the formatting that reads well from a prompter, and the guide to reading naturally covers delivery.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. In Rolltake 1.1, select the text, tap Share, and choose Rolltake. It becomes a script that opens in the editor the next time you open Rolltake.

You are probably sharing a link rather than text. Select the words themselves and share those, or tap More at the end of the app row and add Rolltake to your favorites.

The first line of the shared text. With the Shortcuts action you can set the title yourself.

No. Sharing happens on the device and Rolltake has no account. ChatGPT itself needs a connection, Rolltake does not.

Rolltake runs on iOS 17 or later, and the share extension and Shortcuts action are part of version 1.1.