Confusion over Modi's teleprompter in US Congress speech as he may have used a transparent StagePro Presidential Series device

Modi may have used a StagePro Presidential Teleprompter, which is transparent to the audience and by and large to the TV cameras, unless they decide to pick them out.

June 10, 2016, NewsCrunch

When Modi delivered his widely appreciated speech at the US Congress on Wednesday, did he use a teleprompter?

Social media is divided over the question. After he finished his speech, messages from some of his followers poured out congratulating him for speaking extempore.

But his critics hit back marking two devices in his US Congress speech  photos, which look like teleprompters.  But some remain skeptical as these devices do not look like the usual TV screen teleprompters we are used to in India.

Blame the confusion on the technological difference.

As Rediff points out, Modi may have used a StagePro Presidential Teleprompter, which is transparent to the audience and by and large to the TV cameras, unless they decide to pick them out.

They come with glass reflection monitors, on which the text scroll, which is visible to the speaker, but not to the audience sitting before him.  There is also a behind the scene operator who adjusts the   speed of scroll with the speed of narration.

Modi's use of teleprompters has created controversy earlier as well. Last year, in a fit of absent mindedness he had read  'Mrs Sirisena' as 'M R S  Sirisena' while welcoming the Sri Lankan presdient and his wife on their Indian visit.