Generate your presentation by voice, from your phone.
No laptop at hand? Paul opens in your phone's browser, with no app to install. You dictate the brief, Paul composes inside your template, and the PowerPoint is waiting on your computer.
The starting point
Presentations are not always written at a desk. Four moments when speaking beats typing.
- On the train, the day before a meeting.The brief is clear in your head; typing it on a phone would take twenty minutes. You dictate it in two.
- Between two meetings.The client has just told you what they expect. You repeat it to Paul before you forget, and the outline is ready when you walk out.
- A correction to make from the airport.Slide 4 needs a new title and the figure on slide 7 is wrong. You say so, Paul fixes it, without opening PowerPoint.
- A first version to send before tomorrow.You describe the whole presentation, Paul proposes an outline, you approve it, and version 1 goes out tonight.
In every case, what comes out is the same .pptx file, in your brand guidelines, as if you had done it from your desk.
How it works
Dictation is a way of talking to Paul, not a separate mode: anything you can type, you can say.
- 01Step 1
You open Paul in your phone's browser
Nothing to install: the same address as on your computer, with your account. Your templates and presentations are already there.
- 02Step 2
You dictate the brief
Tap the microphone, speak, tap again to stop. Paul transcribes and shows the text in the input box, where you can still edit it before sending.
- 03Step 3
Paul proposes an outline, then composes
Just like a written brief: Paul proposes the outline, you approve it, and the slides are composed one by one inside your template.
- 04Step 4
You correct by voice, then pick up the .pptx
Every change is dictated the same way. The final PowerPoint file is in your library, ready to open on your computer.
Good to know
A few practical points before you dictate.
- 01Length
Two minutes per dictation
Each recording lasts up to two minutes, enough for a complete brief. To go further, follow up with a second dictation.
- 02Language
In your language
Paul transcribes what you say in the language you say it, and composes the presentation in the language you ask for.
- 03Browser
The browser's microphone
Your phone asks once for permission to use the microphone. Dictation works on recent browsers, iPhone and Android alike.
- 04Editing
The editor stays within reach
When moving something by hand is faster than a sentence, the slide editor also works by touch, on the phone.
Frequently asked questions
- Do I need to install an app?
- No. Paul is a website: it opens in Safari, Chrome or any recent phone browser, with your usual account.
- Can I check what Paul understood before sending?
- Yes. The transcription appears in the input box as if you had typed it. You correct it, complete it, then send.
- Can I dictate corrections to an existing presentation?
- Yes, that is the most common case on the move: "change the title of slide 4", "replace the figure on slide 7 with 12%". Paul applies the change inside the template.
- And on a computer?
- The same microphone is available in the input box on your computer, if you would rather speak than type.
- Is the result any different from a written brief?
- No. Once transcribed, a dictation is a brief like any other: same proposed outline, same composition inside your template, same editable .pptx at the end.
Try dictation on your own template
- 01Import your template
- 02Describe the presentation
- 03Export the .pptx