For any corporate worker, this will sound familiar: you’ve just finished a proposal, thought process, or project plan, and now it’s time to present to your colleagues. You sigh and prepare for a long night in of building Microsoft Powerpoint slides. Will it be 10 slides, 20, or 50 to convey your idea? Only time will tell. You make yourself a pot of coffee and prepare for the carpal tunnel you’ll experience the following day.
It doesn’t have to be like this. As voice-directed technologies progress, so should our ways of communicating with each other, past the casual conversation to the more formal business presentation. I want to make a voice-based presentation builder, where you access the microphone of your computer to direct a bot to help you build your presentation— moving shapes, text boxes, and images into alignment. With simple voice commands, you’ll be able to build faster and build with ease— maybe even multi-tasking and doing household chores as you prepare a presentation.
What do you think of this idea: is this something you would use?
Great idea, man. Seems like it could be pretty complicated building a chatbot from scratch, though. Have you thought about integrating with existing AI chatbots, like Amazon Alexa or Google Home? There’s definitely value in this idea, I just wonder if an integration would be a possible solution to a pretty complex space. I’d use the product, for sure!
I second this. I recommend checking out some of the integrations here as well as thinking even bigger. How can you build presentations while on the go by speaking to your Apple Watch? What about an integration that sees an action item from an email and starts the framework for a presentation for you? I see a lot of value in this idea and think automation as a value driver is the key here– regardless of format.
Hey man, thanks for the feedback. That’s definitely an avenue I’m interested in pursuing. I’m looking into how easy it might be to build on top of existing Amazon Alex/Google Home infrastructure and definitely leaning towards taking that route. One consideration is that more people do have access to microphones on their laptops than have Amazon Alexas/Google Homes, so something to figure out.
I would urge you to consider integrating with existing chatbots and AI. In a solution like yours, I would put accessibility and equity at the forefront of design. Will your program recognize all voices? All accents? Though existing AI solutions aren’t perfect, they are industry-leading and can give you a headstart with accessible design from the beginning, instead of treating it as an afterthought on the roadmap, which your competitors might.
This is an awesome idea! I wonder if your buyer is an everyday person or actually a company? I could see this have huge time-saving implications for employees, which would speak to a corporate buyer being more of the target market…
Totally agree. Specifically, larger, corporate organizations… like accounting firms or banks maybe? This could be great for fast-paced organizations that need to churn out a high volume of presentations
I’d use this! Are you thinking of releasing this only for Microsoft PowerPoint, or would I also be able to use something like this for Google Slides?
Both, for sure. Depending on the easier technical path, I might start with one over the other, especially if I’m using an existing Microsoft or Google integration. Thanks for bringing up.