Nail your next presentation with Presenter Coach in PowerPoint for the web
Published Jun 18 2019 09:19 AM 21.6K Views
Microsoft

Public speaking can be stressful. From boardrooms to classrooms, stepping on stage can cause our blood pressure to rise, but with a little practice, our belief is that everyone can improve how they presentOver the last few years we’ve received feedback from enterprise customers, parents, educators, and students that people want an easy way to practice their presentations to improve their public speaking abilities. Today, we are making this a reality with the launch of Presenter Coach in PowerPoint for the web!

 

 

Based on academic research and field studies, we’ve integrated presentation best practices into Presenter Coach to help people give more effective presentations - all through the power of AI.  

 

This feature allows people to enter rehearsal mode and while speaking they receive on-screen feedback about pacing, inclusive language, use of filler words like “um” or “uh, culturally insensitive phrases and, if someone is just reading their slides. At the end of each rehearsal session, the presenter receives a detailed report that highlights additional areas of practice for improvement. 

 

Presenter Coach will be available on PowerPoint for the web this Summer. We hope that you love it!

17 Comments
Silver Contributor

Web? Who uses PowerPoint for web for presentations? Again, like with new room management improvements and LinkedIn, new features weirdly going first to web versions. Anyway, you should also add head tracking, so presenter would be reminded to look at the crowd instead of showing his back and reading from the wall screen :)

Microsoft

@wroot thanks for your feedback. Yes we are working to enhance our Office for the web offering so that people can present and practice anywhere. Great idea about head-tracking to help people improve the way they speak and present. Thanks again!

Brass Contributor

Love the idea of the feature but privacy will be an obvious concern.  Do you have any information on this, and do controls exist that we might be able to use to turn off the feature if needed?

Microsoft

Hi @DM51673,

 

Presenter Coach will support the same privacy standards as all Office features. For Presentation Coach to work, Intelligent Services need to be enabled for end-users. Note that enterprise admins also have the ability to turn on or off intelligent features for their employees.  Does this help?

Brass Contributor

Hi @Richard Tso 

To be fair, not really I'm afraid.  Intelligent Services/Connected Experiences that analyze our content are now in one big bucket that we can either have turned on or turned off (as least in ProPlus).  Yet the analysis done on that content by individual connected experiences may be stateless or a stateful process.   e.g translator is stateless, dictation is stateful, and I would assume Presenter Coach is stateful too. 

 

So if we're not happy with any one of the stateful connected experiences, then we are forced to have to switch the lot off and that's a terrible UX.  If all Connected Experiences are not going to be stateless/no-trace, it's my opinion that individual controls should be provided for each Connected Experience.

Microsoft

Thanks I will pass your recommendation on to our engineering teams. 

 

In order for the service to function, some content on slides are transmitted to Microsoft to provide intelligent recommendations, as well as spoken words via a microphone. For Presenter Coach, we currently don’t store any customer data including the rehearsal report. Any transmitted data will be purged within a maximum of 24 hours. To learn more: Data management at Microsoft and Where your Office 365 data is located?  

Copper Contributor

Awesome feature but I would really want to use this in the native version. I can't remember the last time I used PowerPoint web to practice a presentation.

Copper Contributor

When will be  available  the feature. ?

I need  it to prepare  my final dissertation ppt speech, i can't wait  to use it .

 

Steel Contributor

@Richard Tsothat sounds really interesting. It'd be great if you could add this please to the Microsoft 365 roadmap so there's one place to keep track of the status of products. I found I read an announcement, get excited, then find I have to wait for it be launched for my tenant then forget to go and look for it again https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap 

Copper Contributor

So when is presenter coach going to be available? Seeing lots of promotion but not the feature.  Any date range you can share?

Silver Contributor

@Richard Tso, When will this be available?  I don't see it yet and can't find on the M365 Roadmap either.

Iron Contributor

@wroot - I've used the PowerPoint web version in rooms which had their own PC presentation terminal without full PPT installed. It saved my life once when my laptop died.

Brass Contributor

Hi @Richard Tso, I've seen this feature in the news for a while and seen some great live demos of it, however, it still isn't showing up for me in PowerPoint on the Web.

 

Is it still to roll out to all of Office 365 or locked to US-on;y or something?

Copper Contributor

Does this feature exist or not?  I saw a video with Sayta promoting it and we have heard nothing from Microsoft about where to find it how to access or when and if it is available.  Is anyone even reading these posts?  Please answer. We are customer who want to use what you are promoting and are frustrated with your complete lack of response. Is this the customer experience you want us to have!?!!  Thanks for your help. 

Brass Contributor

I just found this official support article but the only reqs seem to be a modern browser. Nothing about whether it is actually available yet!

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Rehearse-your-slide-show-with-Presenter-Coach-cd7fc941-5c3b...

Silver Contributor

It has rolled out to our tenant.  I haven't had a chance yet to test it but it is available.  See image below.

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Microsoft

Hi All,

Yes Presenter Coach is now generally available and rolling out to all tenants now for PowerPoint on the web. Apologies for the delay!

 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2019/09/25/microsoft-365-web-desktop-productivity...

 

-Richard

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