Script2Slides | Devpost

Enter the script here!
Slideshow generated by AI

Inspiration

Having to prepare presentations is already dreadful enough. But also having to prepare slides to accompany it? So much worse. As students, we could not be any more familiar with this situation. While our speeches for English class may be a valid indicator of our English skills, the slides we make are not. The time we spend making these slides is better allocated elsewhere, and this is where Script2Slides comes in.

What it does

This productivity tool we created automatically generates a visually appealing slideshow containing key information and relevant images. All you need to do is copy and paste your script into the textbox on our website, and your brand-new slideshow will be downloaded for you to use!

How we built it

Script2Slides was created with HTML and styled with CSS. The script is summarized into bullet points in GPT-3.5 using the OpenAI API, and an image description is generated. We then use this description to find relevant images for the slides using Google Image Search API. With both bullet points and images, we create a PowerPoint file downloaded for the user.

Challenges we ran into

We decided on the idea quite late — around 11:30 a.m. on Saturday! This meant we only had a day to work on the project. A few more challenges we ran into included crafting a prompt that worked well with GPT and downloading the slideshow as a PowerPoint since the formatting would have problems.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We’re proud of creating our first hack that successfully implements AI. But beyond that, we’re simply happy to solve an issue the whole team can relate to.

What we learned

Since this is our first time implementing AI, we learned how to use OpenAI API, and more specifically, Victor learned how to use Flask.

What's next for Script2Slides

In the future, we wish to run Script2Slides in a way that is more personalized. It would be nice to make things more customizable; for instance, the software can detect the theme of a presentation, i.e. formal, business, technology, etc. and then design the slides accordingly. We’d also like to allow the user to download the slides in formats other than PowerPoint.