Welcome to this video about using tablet computers for your speaking notes. I'll tell you about a few ways you can use them. And I'll demonstrate them for you to a tablet, of course is small and in conspicuous and often only needs subtle swipe to change from one screen to another when you're using it. And if you're using a lectern, a tablet will sit very nicely out of sight. I've got my iPad, so I'll be using that. But the principles and some of the apps also apply to Android tablets.

Now then, how do we use a tablet for writing and display notes? Well, you can use standard apps that are not specifically meant for speaking notes. Any of the typical word processing or notes making apps available for the tablet can be used for writing notes and displaying them to you during a speech. For example, pages or notes. We are similar for the iPad. Here's my speech on pages.

The word processor you can buy for just a few pounds for the iPad. And as you can see, all I need to do to see my notes is gently swipe the screen. And back. If I want to try not to bounce your finger as you swipe or you'll see the keyboard, you can use any word processor or note taker that's available for your tablet. There are a number of apps especially made for public speaking, especially for iPad, although there are some available in Android version as well. These apps either simulate traditional methods of writing and using notes or provide their own slant.

I'll demonstrate three apps on my iPad today. First, their speeches for iPads. Then podium cube iPad. And thirdly, my favorite prompt for iPad and Android. So first of all, this simulates the use of cards, cards. May be written, imported and edited in the app, and then play during the speech, the content navigated by swiping from one card to the next.

And you can also swipe backwards as well. The app allows you to specify a timing for the speech and displays an overall progress bar so that you can keep track of your timing. That means you can also keep track of your timing when you're rehearsing, and of course, when you're delivering your speech, so let's have a look at that. This is the layout. Your speeches are on the left. Speeches can either be typed in directly or they can be imported.

Here's another speech of mine. Now, if you look at the speech, you can see there are some dividing lines. They show the bottom of each card. Just put three dashes in your text to signal the end of each card. is a play button at the bottom of the screen, and we can see the first card with a timer at the bottom. Just swipe to the left to move to the next card or to the right to move back.

Now, podium cue protein cue is another card simulation. The app provides three different color coded types of card intro for your introduction story for the facts, references and anecdotes. And main, for the main part of your speech. You can link the cards together in the sequence you want. And then you can play them. you swipe between them as you need them.

And again, you have a timer facility. So here's the app. This is another simulation of cards. This example has been set up to give you instructions for using it all top instructions. You get three sorts of card you can type Anything you want in each card. A white card is for the introduction to your speech.

The blue cards have a story cards for any supporting anecdotes you might use. And the main cards are red. They are the main parts of your speech. Let's see how it works out the play button in the top right hand corner, it brings up your introduction card, swipe up to go to the first main card, swipe to the left to get the next main card in sequence, and so on. And finally, prompts are available for both iPad and Android prompts that takes on a different approach. It simulates a teleprompter or autocue you can create your notes within the app or import a text file for speech practice and delivery that absolutely scrolls the text on the tablet screen at a speed that you can determine and a text size That you prefer.

You can also start or stop scrolling at any time and manually scroll to any part of the document. As with the others, this app will also track elapsed time as you speak. Additionally, you may use the built in camera or microphone to record yourself and then play it back while you're practicing your speech. Finally, let's have a look at this one display my speech. Here is my speech. I can swipe it as usual, but that's not really what I want to do.

What I will do is tap start the text moves up the screen rather like a teleprompter or autocue I can change the scrolling speed up or down and I can change the size of the font. I can also record a view myself as part of my practice. If you stop the scrolling, you can still swipe up and down. Here's my speech in the editing panel. You can import a speech from Dropbox or iTunes. To edit, I just tap and make changes.

When I'm ready, I simply tap prompt, and away I go. I hope you found these demonstrations useful. And if you have a tablet, you could try them out. We'll move back to the mainstream now. And we'll take a detailed look at you, the public speaker standing up there delivering your speech.