Can AI really coach acting?

It can do part of the job well: read the other lines on cue, watch a take, and tell you specifically what is coming across and what is not, tied to the moment it happens. It cannot be in the room with you or know you the way a teacher does. Sides is built for the practice and taping you do on your own.

Will it tell me how to play the scene?

No line readings. The notes say what the take communicates and where it loses focus, and the coach helps turn a note into something you can play. The choices stay yours.

Does it understand my sides?

Yes. Upload a PDF, Word or Final Draft file, or paste the text, and Sides finds the characters and your cue lines. The reader plays every role but yours, and the notes are about your take of that scene.

You can start free: one tape a month with a preview read and your score, 2 read-throughs a month where the reader performs the whole scene, and one recorded take. Rehearsing live with the reader, the full notes and the coach chat come with Sides Pro at $19 a month.

Does it replace my acting coach?

No. It is there at 11pm when the tape is due and nobody can read with you. Keep your teacher. If you want a person’s opinion on a take, Studio Notes puts it in front of a working film professional.

An AI acting coach for the audition you have this week.

Run your sides with a reader that listens, tape the scene, and get notes on what a casting director will see. It works on your scene, not a stock monologue. Try the reader right here: say Andrew’s lines and Fletcher answers.

Ready

Whiplash, the practice room

FLETCHER

Were you rushing or were you dragging?

ANDREW

I don't know.

FLETCHER

Start counting.

ANDREW

One, two, three, four.

FLETCHER

Not quite my tempo. Again.

Then tape it, and see how it reads.

The reader is where you start. Sides stays with the scene through the take and the notes.

Record with your lines beside the lens.

A teleprompter keeps your sides on screen while you tape, and the reader plays the other part in your ear, so the take sounds like a scene instead of a monologue.

Self-tape recording

Take 2

Lady Bird, the car

Recording 0:18

Line 2 of 3

What if this is the best version?

LADY BIRD

Live teleprompter

Hearing you. The next line comes when this one lands.

MARION

I want you to be the very best version of yourself that you can be.

LADY BIRD

What if this is the best version?

MARION

Come on. We're going to be late.

Notes like a casting director gives.

The analysis watches the take and listens to it, then gives you a score, a verdict on whether it reads as ready, and notes pinned to the second they are about.

Self-tape feedback

0:21 / 1:11

Tape strength

74/ 100

Callback-ready

50 Developing70 Callback-ready85 BookableLast take 61

Your face goes still for nine seconds at 0:21 while Fletcher talks, and that is where the take stalls. The flinch at 0:59 is the moment we actually see you take the hit.

Since your last take

The count stopped being recited and started being a decision.

Betterbreath and filler, feeling it, not showing it

Your next take

Stay alive while the reader talks

Run the scene with your own lines silent. Only listen, and let your face respond to what Fletcher actually says, especially through the stretch around 0:21. Then add your lines back in.

How you'll know it worked

Something moves on your face before you speak, every time.

Record the next take

Notes

The few that would move this tape the most.

Fix these first

Reacting before you speak

0:33

You start "I don’t know" before the question has finished.

The answer reads as prepared instead of decided.

Try this

Let the question land, then decide. Half a second is enough.

Breath and filler

Two audible catches of breath before the count.

The breath announces the line before you say it.

Try this

Take the breath on Fletcher’s line, not your own.

What worked

Feeling it, not showing it

0:59

You flinch a beat before "Again" and you do not push it.

That is the one moment we believe you completely.

Every word heard

Every word comes through, even at the quietest volume.

Casting never has to lean in.

The right amount of movement

0:50

You hold still through the count and it reads as choice.

The frame stays on your face where the scene is.

Ask what to do about the notes.

Ask what to fix first, why a moment reads as rushed, or how to play the next take. The coach answers from your take and its notes, not from a list of generic tips.

AI coach chat

AI Coach

Ask about this take while the context is fresh.

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What should I fix first?

The stretch at 0:21. Fletcher talks for nine seconds and your face stays still the whole time, so the take stops being a conversation and becomes a wait for your cue.

Run it once with your own lines silent. Only listen, and let something move on your face before you answer. Then put the lines back.

Should I play the count at 0:50 angrier?

No. It already works because it stopped being recited and became a decision. Keep it as it is and spend the next take on the listening.

Ask a question…

For the actor with a tape due this week.

Actors in training who want reps between classes, and working actors putting self-tapes in for film, TV and theater. If you have ever begged a roommate to read the other part, it is for you.

What it won’t do

Replace your teacher: Sides is for the hours between classes: the night before the tape is due, when nobody is around to read with you.
Give you a line reading: It tells you what reads and what does not. How to play the scene is still your call.
Book the job: It helps you send the strongest version of the work you have done. Casting still makes the decision.

Questions about an AI acting coach

Can AI really coach acting?: It can do part of the job well: read the other lines on cue, watch a take, and tell you specifically what is coming across and what is not, tied to the moment it happens. It cannot be in the room with you or know you the way a teacher does. Sides is built for the practice and taping you do on your own.
Will it tell me how to play the scene?: No line readings. The notes say what the take communicates and where it loses focus, and the coach helps turn a note into something you can play. The choices stay yours.
Does it understand my sides?: Yes. Upload a PDF, Word or Final Draft file, or paste the text, and Sides finds the characters and your cue lines. The reader plays every role but yours, and the notes are about your take of that scene.
Is it free?: You can start free: one tape a month with a preview read and your score, 2 read-throughs a month where the reader performs the whole scene, and one recorded take. Rehearsing live with the reader, the full notes and the coach chat come with Sides Pro at $19 a month.
Does it replace my acting coach?: No. It is there at 11pm when the tape is due and nobody can read with you. Keep your teacher. If you want a person’s opinion on a take, Studio Notes puts it in front of a working film professional.

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