Microsoft patents AI that presents PowerPoint slides for you
Microsoft has filed a patent for an 'Auto-Present' mode that uses AI to deliver slide decks like a human speaker. The system reads the slides and notes, creates a spoken script, and controls when each slide appears on the screen.
In the filing’s own words
The techniques disclosed herein provide a system and method for automated presentation delivery utilizing artificial intelligence and speech processing technologies. The system processes presentation content, delivers it conversationally, and handles real-time audience interactions while maintaining contextual awareness. The disclosed systems enable dynamic presentation experiences by combining large language models with speech processing technologies to create an interactive presentation agent. Embodiments provide an Auto-Present mode in presentation applications that utilize Large Language Models powered AI agent to automatically present the content of a slide deck file, e.g., a PowerPoint file, just like how a human would, including audience interactions, slide navigations, live Question & Answer sessions and human-like narration of the slides.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method for enabling a presentation application to utilize a large language model to present the contents of a presentation file using a vocal output and slide navigation control data, the method for execution on a system, the method comprising: causing the presentation application to generate a query comprising at least one of images and text within the presentation file and speaker notes, causing the presentation application to generate a prompt that is configured to cause the large language model to: generate a text transcript describing at least one of the images and the text within the presentation file and the speaker notes, generate the slide navigation control data for controlling the display of individual slides within individual time periods; dep: time and order communicating of the query to the large language model causing the large language model to generate an LLM output comprising the text transcript describing at least one of the images and the text within the presentation file and the speaker notes, the query further causing the large language model to generate slide navigation control data for controlling the display of individual slides within the individual time periods that are allocated for individual slides; receiving the LLM output comprising the text transcript and the slide navigation control data; using the LLM output to cause a text-to-speech to generate an audio output having a speech output of the contents of the text transcript; using the slide navigation control data of the LLM output to cause the presentation application to display the slides of the presentation file according to the individual time periods allocated for individual slides while generating the vocal output using content from the text transcript.
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
- Official title
- AUTO-PRESENT MODE FOR PRESENTATION APPLICATIONS
- Publication number
- US20260261627A1
- Application number
- 19066733
- Filed
- Feb 28, 2025
- Published
- Sep 3, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04N 7/15 Electricity & electronicsG10L 13/08 Physics & computingMore from Microsoft in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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