Generative AI for presentations

What is an AI-generated presentation?

An AI-generated presentation is a slide deck created with help from artificial intelligence, used to tell a story and information in a concise, highly visual format. Presentations are made to engage with your audience and spark conversation. Generative AI can be a helpful thought partner in building a compelling slide deck. With Gemini in Slides you can use generative AI to create original images, add speaker notes and talking tracks and transform existing documents into new slide presentations.

How to use Gemini in Slides

With Gemini in Slides, you can create images, generate new slides, summarise a presentation, write or rewrite content and reference your Drive files or Gmail emails as you write or create a new slide.

You can access Gemini in Slides, with the Gemini for Workspace add-on, by clicking the Ask Gemini icon. Once the icon is clicked, you can either select a suggested prompt or compose your own unique prompt to help you quickly generate and fine-tune your presentation.

How Gemini in Slides can help you craft presentations

Generate slide ideas and outlines

Are you struggling to build a slide deck even though you have a concept in mind? Use Gemini in Slides to transform your ideas into engaging presentation decks. With Gemini in Slides, you can easily create slides from scratch or use existing information from Drive files or Gmail emails. For instance, you can ask Gemini in Slides to create a slide summarising a product launch plan or visualising a production process based on an existing document. Gemini in Slides makes it easy to generate high-quality slides with minimal effort.

Fine-tune your presentation content

Get help tailoring your presentation. Use Gemini in Slides to transform your initial content into a more compelling narrative. Gemini in Slides can also help you generate speaker notes for individual slides or provide an executive summary for your presentation. Ask Gemini in Slides to create agenda slides or make messaging more concise throughout your presentation. Need help crafting an on-brand elevator pitch to sum up your deck? Gemini in Slides can help with that too.

Design with AI-generated visuals

The right visuals can impact your presentation. Click Ask Gemini and enter a prompt to Create an image or Suggest images for this slide. Gemini in Slides uses the context of a slide to generate charts and graphs to illustrate information in a visually appealing way. You can also add your own prompt, and Ask Gemini in Slides to create custom images to make your slides more engaging.

Collaborate efficiently

As a thought partner, you can use Gemini in Slides to quickly extract relevant information that can be used in your presentation. Gemini in Slides can help quickly summarise conversations in Chat, Gmail and reference files in Drive to create slides. You can also tap Gemini in Slides to generate summaries, add speaker notes and ensure that everyone is working in sync before it's time to present. Your team can help to improve Gemini in Slides' output by giving feedback on suggestions to polish your presentation.

Considerations and best practices

Gemini in Slides can help you create decks faster, simplifying the process and giving you more time to devote to other pressing tasks. Generative AI is constantly evolving, getting better and more efficient over time. However, it's important to keep AI best practices in mind to make sure that its output is factually correct.

Fact checking and editing

Read and review your deck before presenting to catch any errors. If your deck includes any medical, legal or financial advice, make sure that you review carefully and share with your organisation's legal team to ensure that no false claims have been made.

Maintaining control

Gemini in Slides lets you give feedback on generated output. If a suggestion is inaccurate, click Good suggestion or Bad suggestion to the bottom right of the text or image suggestion. You can also add additional feedback to help Gemini in Slides improve output and future suggestions. As part of Google's policy, enterprise end users are informed before submitting feedback that feedback data shouldn't contain personal, sensitive or confidential information.

Audience awareness

Gemini in Slides can help you capture your audience's attention while minimising the tedious work involved in creating a compelling deck. When crafting prompts, tell Gemini in Slides who your audience is to help tailor output.