- Hey, whoa.
What is that at the top of the video?
Could it be live subtitles in PowerPoint?
Well, yes, that's exactly what those are
and I'm going to show you how to set them up
and show you some demos so you can see how accurate it is.
So buckle up because here we go.
All right, let's get to the live demo.
Exit out of that view here.
All right, this is how easy it is.
Just a couple of clicks.
I'm here in the slideshow tab
and all you have to do
is check, "Always use subtitles."
And then you go here to the subtitle settings.
You choose the language you're speaking
and there's you know, a few options there.
And then you can choose
what language you want the subtitles to be in
and there's more language options for that.
Make sure you choose your microphone
and then you just choose where you want the subtitles to be.
Right now, I have them above the slide
and then for at least windows you can click
and there's more settings like the style and the size.
So that is it.
And then you've got live subtitles in PowerPoint.
Again, that's how easy it was.
Slideshow tab,
Check "Always use subtitles",
Set your languages,
Choose your microphone.
That's tripped me up a few times
and it hasn't worked,
but it's because I just forgot
to choose the right microphone.
And then choose the position
of where you want the subtitles to be.
So in just a few clicks,
you have live subtitles in PowerPoint.
But how accurate is it really?
Well here is one demo.
I'm gonna do a few throughout this video
so you can see how good it does.
But there's my actual script so you can see what I'm saying
and then compare to how well the subtitles do.
Are you ready? Okay.
I am convinced that we can work together
to end death by PowerPoint.
There is no reason we should be so boring
or confusing when we share data with others.
We can do better and inspire our audiences
to use data to improve the world.
How well did it do?
Comment below.
I couldn't watch while I recorded the video,
so let me know.
And you know what? Why not?
Why don't we switch the language
that it's going to display
and I'm going to choose Spanish.
Let's just do this one more time
so you can see how well it works.
Okay.
I am convinced that we can work together
to end death by PowerPoint.
There is no reason that we should be so boring
or confusing when we share data with others.
We can do better and inspire our audiences
to use data to improve the world.
Hey,
(laughs)
this is fun to test.
(laughs)
I hope you enjoyed that.
So, yeah, again, let me know how well that did.
All right.
Let me just switch this back to,
as you can tell, my computer is actually over here,
not by my camera.
So, okay.
All right.
Yeah, let me know how it did.
So have I actually used these?
Yes, I did it once for,
I did it, I did three webinars in a day
and we used the subtitles.
So I haven't used them a lot,
but I have done it once
and I've also talked to other people who have used it.
So taking all of that together,
there's sort of a consensus that it's really promising.
As you can see, there's clearly a delay.
It's a little slower than my speech.
and you know, as far as I know
so far it's mostly the people I've talked to
are sort of like me,
we're speaking English,
it's our first language,
so that probably has something to do with it.
And at least for me, you know,
I'm originally from Chicago,
so I have a very Midwestern accent.
So I don't really know how it works for other accents
or people who speak other languages.
So please, I really wanna hear from you all.
You know, this is just sort of a quick video
to let people know about it,
but you know, comment below with how well it works for you
because I'm really just curious
and I'm not really sure how it works in other contexts.
But a weakness that I have heard
about PowerPoint live subtitles
is that it doesn't handle jargon
or specific terms very well.
So the demo that I did was just pretty simple words.
So (laughs) out of curiosity,
I wanted to test some very specific words
that I thought PowerPoint
would have a really hard time with.
So I only tested a couple of these
and then I stopped because I was like,
I wanna do this live on the video.
Okay.
So ready? Here we go.
(laughs)
And I'm gonna talk fast because I normally talk fast.
So this is how I, how I speak.
Multinomial logistic regression,
Chi square,
T test.
Okay.
(laughs)
So it's separated Chi square with a comma,
but it got the words. Okay.
Structural Equation Modeling or SEM.
(laughs)
Did not get SEM and that it turned it into a C.
(laughs)
SEM, I'll give it one more chance.
(mumbles) do what I'm saying.
All right.
Sorry for PowerPoint.
That's a fail.
(laughs)
Alright.
Hierarchical Linear Modeling.
Okay.
It did better with that one.
But probably because I just, so I don't know,
like it seems like if I incorporate it into a sentence
like I did Hierarchical Linear Modeling,
you know, does it do well?
Okay. It did all right there.
But yeah, like the auto adjustments
seem like a stirring things off.
Okay.
Norepinephrine.
Oh it got it,
hey.
(laughs)
Epidemiology
and gastrointestinal motility.
Okay.
All right.
So yeah, there we go.
But again, I wonder if I said it in a sentence
like I'm an epidemiologist
and I study norepinephrine.
It actually still got it.
Okay. So there you go.
There's some of the words I thought would be the hardest,
but I want you to test it out
and you know, report back which words it messed up
and you know how it's spelled like SEM being a S-C-M
instead of an E.
(laughs)
Could just be the way I speak.
But again, you know, that's just how I speak.
Now I did ask Twitter
to give me some fun recommendations for words to test
and I'll be doing that at the end of the video.
But I first wanted to say just a few more things.
So this is a great feature
to improve the accessibility of your presentation.
Subtitles are really good for a lot of people.
And if the original text is too small,
again, it looked like you could go in and change it.
You can make it bigger.
I don't know which versions of PowerPoint
you can do that with,
but it's still something for you to test.
So there's a lot of promise here
for improving the accessibility of our presentations.
But there are some important limitations
that I need to warn you about.
First, this only works if you have an internet connection
and I think it needs to be a strong connection.
So I don't know if this would work on a weak wifi signal.
And that's really disappointing
because I know, you know,
I've had to present when there's no internet.
I'm sure you do too.
So this won't work if you don't have internet.
So that's kind of a bummer.
Also, I really wanna emphasize
that this feature does not replace professional services
or professional equipment or interpreters.
Okay.
So I'm not saying that to me this is more of a supplement.
but you know, in no way can you, you know,
not do professional services,
equipment or interpreters
for something like your conference
and just tell everybody to use subtitles.
Okay? They're not good enough for that.
And there's a really good blog post
by my friend Meagan Longoria,
and she talked about what a professional setup
really looks like
and what it was like to present with that.
I highly recommend you check that out.
And again, that's what you need
for something like a conference.
You can't just have people rely on subtitles.
And she made a good point in her blog posts
about how if you wanna do live demos on a website
or a program like SPSS or something,
you lose the subtitles,
the subtitles only work while you're in PowerPoint.
So that's another thing to think about.
And again, I'll put the link to her blog post below.
Now I also need to give you a heads up
that this feature makes death by PowerPoint slides
even less tolerable
because your slides,
if you've noticed,
they're actually smaller than normal
because they had to make room for the subtitles.
So if you already are creating walls of text
with data tables and tiny font sizes,
it gets smaller
and it's just going to make things worse for your audience.
So you really need to make sure that you have better slides.
You need to have engaging and effective slides,
you know, so that when they are smaller for your subtitles,
it doesn't have an, you know,
a negative impact on your slides
and your slides still look great.
Okay. So let me do a test of your recommendations.
I totally feel like Honest Trailers right now.
I don't know if you watch that YouTube channel,
it's really fun.
Okay, I have not tested any of this.
This is totally live.
So there's Meagan
and let's do some of her test words.
Okay. We're going to start with Scrollytelling.
It got it.
(laughs)
That's great. Okay.
Here's another test.
Let's talk about Gestalt principles.
Nope.
(laughs)
It added an S probably 'cause it's a German word.
Habituation, Croissant.
Okay. It got those words.
So, all right.
Not too bad.
All right, Heather.
(laughs)
Here's yours.
I am the Narnia queen of awesomeness.
(laughs)
I'm not.
(laughs)
That made me laugh so hard.
It got it though.
Got it. Okay.
All right. Here we go.
Acetylcholine uptake pathways in the hippocampus.
What?
(laughs)
It got that but it couldn't do SEM?
So acronyms are just hard for it.
Oh and it's like not doing well with my words right now.
So you can't have excitement, it seems.
You can't be like, whaaat?.
(laughs)
it just turns into watt.
Okay.
Remotely operated vehicle or telepresence.
All right.
That was, you know, power point did a good job with that.
So, you know, it's kinda mixed results here.
So yeah, that was so much fun.
Thanks for those suggestions.
I might do more stuff like that.
So keep an eye on Twitter for more questions
for my upcoming YouTube videos.
All right.
Don't forget that I have a free course
to help you make better presentations
so that when you use subtitles, you know,
you don't negatively impact your presentation.
The link to that course is below.
And again, I am so curious how this works for more people.
Please test it out and comment below.
Be sure to tell me, you know,
what were you trying to say?
What did power point actually, you know, turn it into?
what your subtitle, settings were, you know,
and some context about your,
what languages you were speaking,
what accents you have, all that good stuff.
Just very curious how well it works.
And then that way people can look at comments
and see if it's going to be helpful for them.
But either way, I recommend that you test it out.
All right.
As usual, thank you so much for watching this video.
If it was helpful,
then please give it a nice thumbs up,
hit subscribe,
share it with a friend,
spread the word about subtitles.
And yeah, I'm Dr. Echo Rivera
and thank you for helping me end death by PowerPoint.
I'll see you next week. Bye.