Do you hate building PowerPoint presentations? Are you always hastily putting slides together just before you go into a big presentation? Haiku Deck has your back. The new artificial intelligence web tool automatically builds an impressive presentation from an outline of notes.
Haiku Deck Zuru manipulates the data from the company's back catalog of more than three million slide decks to create a new, personalized presentation for the user. The user needs to import an outline from Evernote or an existing presentation from PowerPoint or Keynote on Macs, click a button and they get a new, original slideshow.
Although Haiku Deck is three years old, CEO and co-founder Adam Tratt said that this AI tool was always the plan, the company just needed time to build up its back catalog. "People were looking at Haiku Deck and saying, does the world really need another presentation app? But that was only the first part. We needed this corpus of data to build this new technology."
Using natural language processing (NLP) techniques, Zuru identifies keywords from a user's notes to recommend fonts and images from the Haiku Deck database. It then uses computer vision analysis of the selected pictures to decide where to place the text. Zuru should improve over time as Haiku Deck continues to grow its database of slides, particularly as more customers come online to use the AI tool.
Once it's generated, users can edit the presentation using the Haiku Deck web tool or iPhone and iPad apps. Alternatively, users can export the file and edit it with another product like PowerPoint.
Haiku Deck presentation apps are free but users will have to subscribe to access Zuru. Annual access is available for $30 in presale but will jump to $60 once the tool is released in early spring. If Zuru does everything it claims to do, $60 is a bargain when compared with a lot of enterprise software on the market.
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