Making a PowerPoint presentation is the only activity that people dislike more than sitting through one. However, the process is about to become significantly simpler with the integration of Gemini AI into Google Slides.
This guide will provide a comprehensive examination of the necessary steps to seamlessly integrate Gemini AI into your workflow. Gemini AI provides a variety of features that can revolutionize the way you construct your presentations, whether you are seeking to improve your design elements, optimize content generation, or simply save time.
How to integrate Gemini into Google Slides
Gemini AI is not accessible for use with Slides at the free tier, as is the case with the integrations for Docs and Sheets. In order to access the Google One AI Premium Plan, a $20 monthly subscription is required. Alternatively, a work or school account can be used with a Gemini for Google Workspace add-on.
Click on the “Try Gemini Advanced!” radio button located in the top-right quadrant of the Gemini home screen and adhere to the instructions.
Getting started with Gemini
First, open a new or existing Slides presentation. Next, select the Ask Gemini button in the top-right corner of the screen, located to the right of the share button. This will enlarge the Gemini AI auxiliary, which will follow the entire length of the right side of the screen. You will have the option to either directly input your idea into the prompt window or draw inspiration from the AI-generated image slideshow located at the bottom of the screen in the sidebar.
What Gemini can accomplish in Slides
Gemini AI is primarily capable of generating new presentations, creating images, summarizing a presentation, and writing and rewriting content. It can also search the internet for current information and statistics to address questions that arise while you compose, as well as reference Drive files or Gmail. In essence, it functions as a research and writing tool, similar to Docs.
Gemini expedites my productivity to an astonishing extent by eliminating the tedious menial work associated with slide creation. I have been fortunate enough to avoid creating a slideshow myself for well over a decade, despite the fact that I have viewed innumerable slideshows as a journalist, including those presented during product demos, earnings calls, and keynote events. It is unnecessary to elaborate that the process of creating a PowerPoint deck that is visually appealing and professional in appearance currently consumes an inordinate amount of time, as it involves the sourcing of images, thematic formatting, and numerous bullet points.
However, with the assistance of Gemini, I was able to generate a comprehensive eight-slide introduction to the Seattle, Washington, region. This introduction covers the city’s primary attractions, the housing market (both sales and rentals), the education and healthcare systems, and the reasons why individuals should relocate to the region. I utilized straightforward prompts, such as “insert a slide that discusses the education system in Seattle, the number of primary schools in the Seattle area, and Washington’s average education ranking among U.S. states.” I completed all of that in less than ten minutes.
However, there were a few constraints on the extent to which Gemini could assist me. However, the system continued to generate slides that discussed transitions as a subject matter, despite my repeated requests to include motion transitions between each slide (because who doesn’t adore a good star wipe?). Ultimately, I was compelled to manually incorporate those effects.
Additionally, if I were to deliver this presentation in public, I would need to dedicate a significant amount of time to verifying the accuracy of each bullet point to prevent the system from hallucinate. However, without the AI, the process of manually constructing this deck would have required at least a few miserable hours.