Get off-book faster
You have an audition in two days. Callbacks next week. Opening night in three. The script is in your hands, but the lines aren’t in your body yet. You need to move from reading to memorized — and you need to do it without someone sitting across from you holding the pages.
Oteria listens as you rehearse, matches every word against the script, and tells you when you’ve got it right. Run the scene ten times in a row if you need to. Your AI reader never gets tired, never rushes you, never checks the clock.
From first read to word-perfect
Line learning isn’t one step. It’s a progression. Oteria mirrors the way actors actually work — starting loose and tightening as the material settles.
Forgiving mode
For early read-throughs, when you’re still finding the character and getting the arc into your body. Paraphrase is fine. Approximate the line and the scene moves forward — roughly 65% word match is enough. This is where memorization starts: hearing the cues, feeling the rhythm, building the muscle memory of the scene’s shape.
Strict mode
For when every word counts. Around 80% word-perfect match is required before the scene advances. This is the final polish — the mode you switch to when you’re close to off-book and need to lock in the exact language. Useful for audition sides where the casting director will notice a paraphrase, or for stage work where the playwright’s words are the words.
Hide my lines
When you’re ready to test yourself, toggle “Hide my lines.” Your dialogue disappears during your turn. You hear the cue. You deliver from memory. The speech matcher listens and confirms whether you got it right before advancing the scene.
No peeking. No safety net. Just you and the work. If you stumble, redo the line or return to setup and switch your line text back on. This is the closest thing to having a patient scene partner hold the script for you.
How the speech matcher works
Oteria uses your microphone to listen in real time as you speak. A fuzzy matching algorithm compares what you said against the script line — not a rigid word-for-word comparison, but an intelligent match that handles the way people actually talk.
Contractions are expanded automatically. “I’m” matches “I am.” “Don’t” matches “do not.” Natural speech patterns, filler words, small stumbles — the matcher adapts. In forgiving mode it’s generous. In strict mode it tightens. The threshold is calibrated for how actors actually memorize: imperfect at first, precise by the end.
Works with any script format
Paste text directly — standard screenplay format, CHARACTER: dialogue format, character names in caps with dialogue underneath. Drop a PDF of your sides. Photograph a printed page with your phone camera and Oteria extracts the text automatically.
Messy formatting? One click runs AI cleanup, restructuring the text into clean, parsable dialogue. Oteria handles the formatting so you can focus on the lines.