The Art of Presenting in a Rather Noisy World
with Matt Krause and Alper Rozanes

EP10: Alper’s 3 Favorite Apps for Presenters

Episode 10 . 00:00

Episode transcript:

Matt:
Alper, you know what I feel like today. I feel like. I feel like doing some application tips.

Alper:
Okay.

Matt:
Do you have any, like, favorite application pins or application tips that you would like to get out today?

Alper:
Yes, I can actually talk about three applications that I use extensively as especially when I’m doing online trainings or online presentations.

Matt:
And tips for online trainings or online presentations. Those would be especially useful today because I remember, you know, just a short time ago, pre-pandemic, so two, three, four years ago, the idea of doing an app or doing a presentation online was a distant second to the ideas you have personally. But that has totally changed.

Alper:
So tips about the person has become a distant second.

Matt:
Pardon me.

Alper:
Now the personal presentations have become the distant second.

Matt:
Yes, that is true. And that is true. So, yeah. So three applications relevant to giving virtual training that are virtual presentations. Definitely. I mean, so take it away. So what’s what’s the first one on your mind today?

Alper:
All right. Well, the first one would be an external camera application, which I use, which is camera app. I’m not sure if that’s the proper spelling that those guys had on their mind, but it’s CRM, okay? What it does is it actually converts your smartphone with a with a nice camera into an external camera that you can hook up to your computer.

Alper:
Now, especially with the virtual presentations, of course, the image quality is very important. And usually what we see on on on these trainings is people using their laptops, camera and the laptop is usually sitting on a desk. So the person who is doing the speech was delivering the training or the presentation becomes this a hunched over character, you know, down looking at the camera.

Alper:
You have you have these big shoulders and this giant head. Do you remember there was a there was a famous scene in him, anchors. What was his name?

Matt:
You mean he was a broadcast show or. Wait, are we talking real?

Alper:
I don’t know. There was a talk show host. Not on a real life. Real life on CNN. There was this this this man who had a almost a signature appearance like hunched towards a microphone, thinking like, I don’t remember.

Matt:
Charlie Rose or something. Wasn’t his name. Charlie Rose, The guy you’re thinking of, you’re thinking of somebody else. Okay. So big shoulders hunched over somebody else.

Alper:
Yeah. I look at I’m curious. I look it up. Okay, so what what usually happens is we ended up we end up being this hunched over person overlooking the camera. What this application allows you to do is liberate your camera from the laptop. Actually, you connect. It’s a way with a cable to your to your smartphone. And now you can position your smartphone, whatever whatever you like.

Alper:
And usually what I do is I put a slightly behind the computer and it gives you a straight angle where you have your whole body, not your whole body, but your upper body to place on the frame of the camera. And this also allows you to get maybe a little more further from the computer if you if you want to deliver the presentation, standing up using your body language, etcetera.

Alper:
And it has it has pretty good quality. It has I think it has much better image quality than most laptop cameras out there. So it’s one of the one of the software titles that I would definitely recommend. And the for for for geeks, there are also advanced settings like the exposure or the focus or range or something like that.

Alper:
So it gives you a much more controls over the over the laptop camera that’s that we mostly use. And I would definitely recommend at least checking it out.

Matt:
So, so, so wait, before you move on to the second one, so I’ve got a question about what was this called camo or camo camera.

Alper:
Yeah.

Matt:
Camera app. Okay.

Alper:
I think it’s called re incubate camo.

Matt:
Okay. Really incubate camo. Okay. So when you’re using this app, are you using two cameras like the, you know, the built in webcam in your computer and your phone? Or are you just using your phone? Is it one or two cameras?

Alper:
No, I’m just using the phone. I’m positioning the phone behind a laptop screen. Not not not in a way that would block it, of course, but slightly on top of the laptop screen. And it allows me to stand freely and straight in front of the camera without having to be hunched over towards the laptop camera. So it gives me more more, uh, more freedom.

Matt:
Yeah. Okay, I’ll.

Alper:
I’ll find out the guy’s name.

Matt:
Yeah. And so tell me about at number two. What’s that one?

Alper:
The app number two is also one of my favorites is called Doit. And what it does is, again, it replicates it turns your smartphone or tablet into an external monitor. And the number the number one reason why I use this is, you know, especially like in a Zoom meeting or a teams meeting, when when you’re sharing your screen, you also see what you’re sharing at that moment.

Alper:
So the participants in that meeting are in the background so you can see them anymore. But what I want to do, what I want to be able to do during the online online trainings, is to keep the participants on my screen, but at the same time share content to them and and not lose them. Okay. What do it enables me to do is since it’s it’s it’s like it’s like using a second monitor.

Alper:
But you can also do this using a second monitor. But having a second monitor is not very practice all the time, especially if you’re not in the office or maybe you don’t have one. What it does is it allows you to put content to share on on these during these online meetings, on the on the screen of your phone so you can go ahead and share that screen so people will see your presentation.

Alper:
But you get to keep your main screen on your laptop so that you can see the participants or maybe some notes for yourself, etc.. It’s best. It’s basically a low cost of having a second display without having to invest in a bulky monitor That’s, you know, you may or may not use all the time.

Matt:
And what is this one called? Yes, it was it do it or Dwight.

Alper:
Is called Do It is spelled d u e t at this. It’s I think it’s designed by former apple engineer guys. I think the former apple engineer people, I think that’s one of their brand things on their website. Okay.

Matt:
And you use it primarily because it allows you to share your screen, but still keep an eye on everybody who’s in the meeting. Is that.

Alper:
Correct? Yes. It’s like adding a second monitor. So in Zoom, for example, you shared that one with the presentation on it. Okay, a button, your main screen on your main laptop screen, you can still keep seeing the participants, you know, watching, seeing them, or even if you have notes for yourself.

Matt:
Okay. And so the third application. Tell us about that one.

Alper:
Well, the third application is a teleprompter application that I use. I use that especially. And sometimes when when I’m recording videos or also when I’m delivering presentations and I want to follow a script. Now, I don’t like the idea of following a script word by word, but sometimes, sometimes it’s I have seen that it has come handy and it’s called Prompt Smart Pro.

Alper:
A It has both iOS and Android versions. One thing that I love about it is it has a feature called Voice Track. And what it does is, you know, with teleprompters, you either have a fixed speed that you set up in advance and the and the text crawls in front of you or you can you can control it with a remote in your hand.

Alper:
Or if you’re a professional, like it like a foot controller. What this application has is this this voice like feature which actually follows you speaking and it moves the text. It addresses the text based on you pronouncing the words on the screen. I love it because, for example, you follow the script. Let’s say there’s a paragraph in front of you read that, and then you want to stop making comments about something else.

Alper:
Unless you’re reading the script word by word in there on the application, it stops. It doesn’t continue. And once it’s listening to your activity all the time, and once you start going back to the script, reading back to script, you can see that the words move. It’s almost like a magical moment. Anyone I’ve shown this application was like, Wow, this is this is great.

Alper:
Okay, So that is definitely one of the one of the applications that I would recommend.

Matt:
So so I’m curious, I’ve got two questions that are.

Alper:
So go ahead.

Matt:
You’ve described three apps and they’re all apps on your phone. So unless you’re one of those lucky people who, for whatever reason has three phones, can you use all three apps at the same time, or do you have to pick one of them and go with that one?

Alper:
Well, for the camera app, for example, if you’re using your phone as a camera, as an external camera, I think you will definitely be using the rear camera, which is which is better quality. And so your access to your phone goes away. So if you’re using your if you’re if you’re using your phone as a camera, you’re not able to use use other other applications.

Alper:
I’m thinking of what could be the situation where you would want to use three of them. Well, technically, and in the situation that you have in virtual trainings or presentations, yes, you can. But I don’t think I have ever done that. I don’t think I have ever needed to use all three of them at the same time.

Matt:
Mm hmm. Okay. Okay.

Alper:
But now, I mean, almost all of us have some old phones lying around old smartphone and lying around so you can turn one of them into an external display. You can use the best one as as a camera. So you can. You can mix and match.

Matt:
Okay. Excellent. All right, so we’re about out of time. So we have three apps.

Alper:
Which includes the links for these applications in the show notes. If you want to check them out.

Matt:
Yeah, because I’ll be probably be one of the first ones to check out these apps.

Alper:
All right. It’s not the only one.

Matt:
Yeah. So. So. So that wraps it up for today and we’ll see you on the show next week. Talk to you later.

Alper:
All right. Good talking to you about that. Good.

Matt:
Take care. Bye bye.

Alper:
Thank you for listening to the White Rabbit with Matt Krause and Alper Rozanes. You can subscribe to the podcast on Spotify, iTunes, or through your favorite feed.

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