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. Schematic representation: A teleprompter is a display device that prompts the person speaking with an electronic visual text of a speech or script. ... A genericized trademark (Commonwealth English genericised trade mark), sometimes known as a generic trade mark, generic descriptor or proprietary eponym, is a trademark or brand name which has become synonymous with the general or formal term for a particular type of product or service, to the extent that it often...
London, 14 April 2004: Autocue, a world leader in prompting services to the television, film and conference industries, is to introduce the latest version of its teleprompting software featuring Aurix technology at the National Association of Broadcasters Convention (NAB) 2004.
Autocue will be demonstrating the product at its stand (C4736A) at NAB in Las Vegas from 17th to 22nd April.
Autocue first adopted 20/20 Speechs Aurix speech recognition technology in 2001 to enable the scrolling speed of a prompter to be automatically controlled by the rate at which a presenter reads a script.