From slides to videos: How to save meetings and bring your presentations to life
Written by Tim Moss | 12th November 2025
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You know how it is: another presentation is coming up and it’s the same slides and questions again. You think to yourself, ‘I’ve said all this ten times before.’ Welcome to the age of automated presentations!
simpleshow’s new Slides-to-Video feature allows you to turn your PowerPoint slides into a professionally narrated video in just a few clicks. The video comes complete with a narrator, avatar and matching design.
There are no appointments, no small talk and no need to ask, ‘Can you hear me?’ Just turn on your video, deliver your message, and you’re done. This article explains how the new feature works and how you can use it for internal and external corporate communications.
What is Slides-to-Video?
Slides-to-Video is the latest feature in simpleshow video maker. It was developed to solve a problem with which we are all probably familiar: presentation overload.
Upload your PowerPoint file and select a visual style. In just a few minutes, you’ll have a video featuring a professional narrator and an optional AI avatar to guide your audience through the content.
The special thing about it is that the video doesn’t just look like a screen recording; it feels like a real, personal presentation. Your slides remain intact but are supplemented by clear, natural-sounding narration and placed against a visually appropriate background. You can also use the new backgrounds in other projects outside of Slides-to-Video.
You can add illustrations or real videos to your video if you want. You can even insert new scenes with easy-to-understand animations that explain complex information simply.
This combines your original presentation with modern storytelling techniques.
Why is this feature so relevant?
Companies spend hours every day delivering recurring presentations, such as onboarding sessions, product presentations, training sessions and status updates. Many of these could actually be recorded.
Slides-to-Video does exactly that. You create a good presentation once, and then the AI helps you turn it into a moderated, reusable video.
Dr Sandra Boehrs, Chief Marketing Officer at simpleshow, sums it up:
“With Slides-to-Video, users can communicate clearly and consistently, eliminating the need for additional meetings. It’s a simple yet effective tool that makes business communication more efficient and engaging.”
Simple workflow – big impact
The feature is so intuitive that you’ll master it on your first try. Here’s an overview of the process:
1. Start a new project: In your dashboard, select the Slides-to-Video option.
2. Upload PowerPoint: Simply drag your file (.ppt or .pptx) into the upload field or use the upload manager. (Currently supports up to 25 slides and a maximum of 50 MB—perfect for compact presentations.)
3. Select template & style: A selection window will then open. Here you can decide how you want your video to look—for example, in a virtual meeting room or in a clean, illustrative style.
4. Generate video: The AI reads your slides, recognizes the most important content, and automatically writes a suitable narration script. This text is then recorded by a professional-sounding, natural-sounding voice.
5. Fine-tune your video with simpleshow video maker: Once your base video is ready, you can edit it as usual by adding illustrations, choosing different voices, rearranging scenes or adding branding elements.
And that’s it! In just a few minutes, you’ll have an on-demand presentation that looks and feels just like you gave it in person.
How AI turns your slides into videos
Slides-to-Video uses intelligent technology to transform your slides into meaningful scenes. Each slide is analyzed and automatically converted into a visual element, which is then supplemented with a suitable voiceover.
The AI ensures the text sounds natural while highlighting the most important points. This prevents monotonous presentations and creates a fluid narrative, making it sound almost as if you were speaking yourself.
By the way: If you have added notes to your slides, these will not be transferred automatically, as simpleshow has deliberately decided against this feature. This is because many PowerPoint presentations use incomplete or unstructured notes. This ensures consistency and a high-quality result.
Where Slides-to-Video excels
1. Onboarding & Training
Training new employees is one of the most time-consuming aspects of everyday business life. All new starters have to watch the same presentations on company values, safety regulations, tools and processes, and someone from HR or the team is always on hand to explain everything.
Slides-to-Video makes this process easy to automate. Simply upload your existing PowerPoint presentations, select a template and add a friendly avatar to create a clearly structured onboarding video that’s available around the clock.
For example, consider the task of explaining how your time tracking system works or which data protection guidelines apply in the office. Rather than presenting the slides in person each time, new employees can watch a professionally narrated video that talks them through the process step by step.
Best of all, new colleagues can pause, rewind or replay the video as many times as they need to without feeling guilty. This enables them to learn at their own pace while freeing up your time for more important tasks.
If a process changes, there’s no need to re-record everything. You just need to adjust a few slides, regenerate the video, and you’re up-to-date again in minutes.
2. Sales & Product Demos
In sales, first impressions count, and they should be equally strong everywhere. Slides-to-Video helps you to standardize presentations while making them more engaging.
Rather than each member of the sales team delivering a slightly different version of the pitch, you can create a consistent, brand-compliant product demonstration. An avatar can present your offer, complete with a professional voice and a look that matches your brand perfectly.
Your video can be embedded on websites, shown at trade fairs or sent directly during conversations, and it will always be of the same high quality and convey the same message.
Another advantage is that you can localize the same presentation in seconds. The AI automatically translates the speaker’s text and creates new language versions, which is ideal if you operate in international markets or have global sales teams.
This ensures that your product communication is both professional and scalable.
3. Internal communication
Hardly anyone reads company update emails carefully. A video, on the other hand, creates a connection. With Slides-to-Video, you can make internal communications more emotional and personal without having to appear on camera every time.
Imagine management wants to share a new strategy update or present the success of a project. Rather than sending a lengthy PDF, they create a video in which an avatar acts as a spokesperson, complete with gestures, facial expressions and a friendly voice. This seems more human and is more likely to be watched by employees than a text message on the intranet.
This is also useful for internal project teams. You can use it to visually present progress reports, product milestones or new initiatives, ensuring that everyone in the company receives the same message, regardless of their department or location.
Even short welcome messages or event announcements can be created in minutes that are friendly, clear and consistent with your brand. This makes internal communication more informative and engaging.
How AI turns your slides into videos
Slides-to-Video is perfectly suited to the trend of asynchronous working. Today’s teams are often distributed across different time zones, so not everyone can be present at every meeting.
Video presentations enable you to share information without everyone needing to be online at the same time. This offers greater flexibility and reduces stress, often resulting in better concentration when watching.
Your colleagues can watch the video at a time that suits them. If you want to localise your video, you can do so in just a few clicks. The AI will automatically translate and dub it into different languages.
PowerPoints that finally come to life
The beauty of Slides-to-Video is that you don’t have to build a completely new presentation. You use what you already have—and the AI takes it to a whole new level.
This is particularly helpful if you have a lot of existing slides in your company: training materials, marketing presentations, reports, internal updates. Static material is transformed into lively videos that you can use in a variety of ways: on your website, on the intranet, on learning platforms, or in the customer portal.
Try it out today in the simpleshow video maker.
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