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The Top 5 PowerPoint Plugins with AI– Which One Saves You the Most Time?

TL;DR: We’ll admit it- at SlideSpeak, we’ve gotten a little too comfortable. It’s been ages since any of us actually built a PowerPoint deck from scratch. Why bother when we’ve got AI plugins, templates, and tools that basically do it for us, right? Well… one of our team members called us out. Said we might […]

Kevin GoedeckeJul 27, 2025

Artificial Intelligence

Create AI Presentations in Claude using MCP

Claude’s capabilities can be extended through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which allows developers to add custom tools and integrations directly to the AI assistant. With MCP, Claude can do much more than just chat, using the SlideSpeak MCP Claude can generate PowerPoint presentations, analyze spreadsheets, interact with APIs, and perform countless other specialized tasks […]

Mike van EgmondJul 21, 2025

Artificial Intelligence

Best Tools to Animate Presentations with AI

We already know that AI-powered tools to generate presentations exist, and we also know that static slides in your presentations do nothing for audience engagement. As generative AI becomes more talented, a new capability is emerging: animating presentations with AI. Is using AI tools to animate presentations really worth the learning curve, or should we […]

Kevin GoedeckeJul 3, 2025

Artificial Intelligence

Automate presentations with Make.com

Whether you’re generating weekly reports, client presentations, or project summaries, the process of manually transforming this data into presentation slides is both tedious and time consuming. What if you could automate this entire workflow and have professional presentations created automatically every time your data updates? Make.com is a powerful visual automation platform that allows you […]

Mike van EgmondJun 17, 2025

Artificial Intelligence

5 Tools to Convert a Research Paper to PowerPoint with AI (2026)

We tested 5 AI tools that convert a research paper to PowerPoint: SlideSpeak, PopAi, MagicSlides, SlidesPilot, and Presentia AI. Free options, thesis defense tips, and step-by-step guides included.

Kevin GoedeckeJun 17, 2025

Artificial Intelligence

Generate PowerPoint with AI from any Word document

TLDR: Go here to start using SlideSpeak directly to turn your Word document into a presentation with AI. SlideSpeak lets you generate PowerPoint presentations from any Word document. It uses the latest AI technology to analyze the content of your document and design professional slides for you. In this post, we’ll walk through how to […]

Kevin GoedeckeJun 17, 2025

Artificial Intelligence

10 Tools for Generating Charts for Presentations with AI

With the rise in access and abilities of generative AI tools, creating words and visuals for anything is now possible with just one prompt. Charts and graphs are known to be one of the most frustrating steps in the process of creating a compelling presentation, and now there are dozens of AI tools that can […]

Kevin GoedeckeJun 9, 2025

Artificial Intelligence

Best AI Presentation Makers for Teachers

For teachers, presentations are essential to class sessions and lesson plans, but creating presentations can be time-consuming. Luckily, in 2026, there are plenty of AI presentation makers for teachers that make the PowerPoint process seamless. Whether your goal is to create visually stunning slides, outline a presentation with accurate info, or incorporate curriculum guidelines, this […]

Kevin GoedeckeMay 18, 2025

Top 5 SlidesGPT Alternative AI Tools in 2025

Artificial Intelligence

15 AI Tools to Improve Your PowerPoint Presentation

In this article, I’m sharing five AI tools that can help you improve your PowerPoint presentations. After exploring numerous options, I’ve handpicked these tools based on my personal experience with each one. This means the recommendations you’ll find here are grounded in real usage, so you can trust that they work and actually help to […]

Kevin GoedeckeMay 3, 2025

Artificial Intelligence

Top 5 DeepSeek Alternative Tools in 2025

As new technology continues to enhance our communications, professionals and educators are turning to AI tools not just to write, research and summarize information – but to generate visuals, automate presentations and even create code. DeepSeek is a recent standout tool in the AI space, known for its advanced language and generation capabilities coupled with […]

Kevin GoedeckeApr 15, 2025

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