Turn a PowerPoint deck into an audio show
Upload a PowerPoint PPTX to Lissin and get the deck as narrated audio, built from slides and speaker notes, for whoever missed the meeting.
The short answer
Upload the .pptx and describe the show. Lissin reads slide text and speaker notes together. A deck is a set of headlines, and the argument connecting them usually lives only in the notes, so a deck without notes narrates as a list.
How to do it
Check the speaker notes before you upload
Open the notes pane and check what is there. If the notes are empty, the audio has only the slide titles and bullet fragments to work from, and the result is a two-minute outline. Twenty words of notes per slide is enough to change that.
Upload the .pptx, not an exported PDF
A PDF export of a deck drops the notes and keeps only the slides. The .pptx keeps both, and Lissin reads them together.
Say who missed the meeting
Name the person the episode is for: ‘brief someone who was not in the room and needs the decision and the reasoning, not the build-up’. A deck is written for a presenter, so ask for it rewritten for one listener.
At a glance
- Format
- PPTX read natively, including speaker notes
- PDF export
- Works, but loses speaker notes
- Typical episode length
- 6–12 minutes from a 20-slide deck
- Transcript
- Included, synchronised to the audio
Hear what comes out
Shows already published on Lissin, free to play in the browser.
Questions
- Does it read the charts?
- It reads any text on or around them — titles, axis labels, callouts — but not the shape of the data. A slide whose point is the line going up needs that point written somewhere in text for the audio to carry it.
- Can I do a whole quarter of decks at once?
- Yes. Upload them together and ask for the through-line, for example ‘what changed across these four reviews’. You get one episode that compares them instead of four separate readings.
- Keynote or Google Slides?
- Export to PPTX from either. Keynote’s File → Export To → PowerPoint and Slides’ File → Download → Microsoft PowerPoint both preserve the notes.
What this does not do
Animations, build order and anything conveyed by layout are lost. Deliberately sparse decks give the least to work with, because their content was always the person presenting.
Make your own show, or hear a sample
Make a show from your topic or documents in the Lissin iPhone app (iOS 26 or later). Or listen to public shows in the web player without installing the app.
Last reviewed September 9, 2026 by Lissin Editorial.