In today's world, a good presentation has become a key tool for communicating ideas, sharing our vision or persuading our audience. However, putting together an effective presentation can be a task that takes a lot of time and effort.
To tackle that problem we can turn to artificial intelligence, which has already proven to be very effective at optimizing both cost and time on tasks like writing content or generating images.
Using AI to create presentations not only speeds up the process, it also guarantees visually attractive, logically structured content. We can even produce presentations on topics we don't master.
Below we will walk through several tools to generate presentations, both free and paid, along with step-by-step tutorials.
The 7 best tools to create presentations with AI
In this short list we have gathered what we believe are the best options available today to lean on artificial intelligence when generating presentations:
- Canva: in line with its all-purpose character, Canva has also integrated an option to use artificial intelligence to generate presentations. Below we explain in more depth how to use it.
- SlidesAI: it integrates within Google Slides and is slightly more complex to use than the others, but it lets you create presentations beyond a single given topic since you can also feed it your own texts. It allows you to generate 3 projects for free.
- Wepik: this is the Freepik team's alternative for generating presentations with artificial intelligence for free. A little further down we go through its options.
- SlidesGo: it offers a slightly more limited configuration than its rivals, but in return it lets us generate our PowerPoints for free. We indicate the topic, style and tone and it builds the presentation for us. We can then edit it as we please.
- Tome: it is arguably the most complete in terms of options, both with and without AI. Once we provide a topic, it asks for the starting style and generates a script we can edit freely. Once we confirm the structure, it builds the slides. Initially, it gives 500 credits to try it out, enough for 4 or 5 presentations. The results contain fairly polished text and custom images created with AI.
- BeautifulAI: a platform with many AI-powered customization options for creating slides, with integrations such as Slack or Google Drive and the ability to generate animations or audio for presentations. It offers several paid plans.
- Decktopus: a tool with an assisted interface that guides you through the creation of the presentation. You only need to provide an initial topic and it will offer options regarding duration, target audience or the tone you want to use. It has several paid plans.
Video presentations with Artificial Intelligence
As an alternative to the classic slide deck we want to suggest video presentations with virtual avatars.
Although they are still at an early stage of development, you can already generate these types of videos on different platforms such as Synthesia, choosing both your virtual presenter and their digital voice.
The future of creating presentations with AI
The alternatives we have presented in this article are the ones we currently consider most useful, but artificial intelligence advances very quickly and it is no secret that they will evolve and new platforms will appear.
In this regard, both Google with its Duet assistant and Microsoft with Copilot and Designer are making big strides, and we will soon be able to use both tools to automatically generate our presentations inside PowerPoint or Slides.
Conclusion
Artificial intelligence lets us speed up many of the mechanical processes that show up day to day in our company, and the ability to generate presentations in less time can add a lot of value.
There are many alternatives on the market and, depending on how demanding we are or the level of customization we are looking for, we can lean towards one option or another. What seems clear is that if we want to save time when building presentations, leaning on AI is an excellent solution.