Action Phrase: Voice Control for Live Production

What if you could control your entire live production… just by speaking? That’s the basis behind Action Phrase, my new app that lets you trigger cameras, graphics, layouts, and more using natural voice commands that you define.

I’ve had this idea for several years now, and I’m happy to have found the time to build it. I can’t wait to see it in the hands of streamers, podcasters, creators, event producers, churches, teachers, and presenters.

Action Phrase demo of the Phrases feature and user interface overview

There are three main features of the app:

Phrases
Scripts
Rooms

Phrases

Action Phrase uses on-device speech to tech recognition to match what you say with phrases that you create in the app. Add parameters like text and numbers that are stored in the phrase, ready to be use with actions.

Create actions that you attach to phrases that communicate with your favorite live production software, hardware, and services, including: Allen & Heath SQ, Bitfocus Companion, Behringer X32, H2R Graphics, Apple HomeKit, Blackmagic HyperDeck, Look Straight, MixEffect, MIDI, OBS, OSC, ProPresenter, QLab, RouteEffect, Shortcuts, Blackmagic Ultimatte, Blackmagic Vidohub, vMix, ZoomISO.

Scripts

Use Scripts to run your presentations automatically. Break up your script into sections and attach action cues to advance slides, trigger lower thirds, cut cameras, and more. Scripts synchronizes actions with your spoken content flow so your timing stays consistent every take.

Rooms

Rooms works like an intelligent, hands-free director. It listens, identifies who’s speaking, and triggers actions automatically based on the live conversation.