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Mispronouncing a graduate’s name on stage is a small mistake that families remember for years. Collie’s Name Reader plays back a recorded pronunciation and displays the name, course, and any award on a customisable banner — with a green screen built in, ready to key over your live video feed.
Why it matters
Graduation and award ceremonies happen once. A mispronounced name or a mistimed display undermines a moment that can’t be redone.
Diverse and uncommon names are easy for an announcer to get wrong live on stage — embarrassing for the graduate and their family.
Matching a name card, an announcer, and a slide display in real time invites mistakes, especially with long queues of names to get through.
A name banner that can’t be composited cleanly into a livestream or recording looks like an afterthought instead of part of the show.
What’s inside
Names, courses, and awards load from a simple CSV file — easy to prepare or edit in Excel before the event.
Colours and layout adapt to your school or organisation’s branding, so the banner looks native to your event, not generic.
A built-in green screen background lets the banner key cleanly over a live video feed or broadcast, no separate compositing setup needed.
Recorded name pronunciations play back in sync with the banner, with a configurable delay to match your stage timing.
Bring up a record by typing an alphanumeric ID or scanning a barcode — whichever fits the flow backstage.
Reorder or remove queued entries on the fly — useful when the run of show changes at the last minute.
How it flows
An operator enters or scans the next ID in the queue — from a printed programme, wristband, or card.
The system pulls the matching name, course, and award from the database, ready to display and play instantly.
The banner appears on the chroma key background and the recorded pronunciation plays, timed to the delay you’ve set.
Operating modes
One machine runs everything — database, display, and audio. Simple to set up for smaller ceremonies.
A separate entry client feeds the server, so ID entry and the display banner can sit in different locations.
Two servers and two clients running with a backup failover, for large ceremonies where a hiccup isn’t an option.
Where it’s deployed
University and school convocations where hundreds of names need to be read correctly, one after another.
Corporate and community awards nights, with a banner styled to match the event’s branding.
Assemblies and prize-givings where course names and achievements need to be shown clearly on stage.
Any ceremony streamed or recorded, where the chroma key banner composites straight into the video feed.
Tell us about your ceremony — how many names, and whether it’s being streamed — and we’ll help you pick the right setup.