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How to record a PowerPoint with narration
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The four steps, with slide-recording notes.
PowerPoint has a "Record Slide Show" feature, but it is a desktop-only workflow with no AI transcript and no shareable link. The browser approach is faster.
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Open your slides in presentation mode
Start the slideshow in PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides — presenter view is the right one if you want to see your notes while recording. The presentation window is what the recorder will capture.
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Open Pullsy in a separate tab, click "Start recording"
Open pullsy.online/record in a separate browser tab (it is OK to use a different tab — the recorder is a separate page from your presentation). Click the green "Start recording" button. The system capture dialog appears — pick the slideshow window or your full screen. If you want viewers to see exactly what your audience sees, pick the "Audience Window" or the slideshow window itself. If you also want your notes and timer visible, pick the full screen.
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Toggle on the AI transcript, then advance your slides while narrating
The "Live AI transcript" checkbox is on by default. Leave it on, and Pullsy transcribes your narration as you go. The same recording produces the video, the AI summary, the chapter markers, and the ask-the-video chat for free. Press spacebar (or click) to advance slides as you normally would; the recorder captures everything.
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Stop, share the link
When you finish the presentation, switch to the Pullsy tab and click "Stop & save". Give the recording a title, and Pullsy generates a shareable link with the full transcript, AI summary, and chapter markers. Viewers can scrub through the video and click chapters to jump to a specific slide. Free retention is 30 days.
One honest limitation.
The Pullsy recorder captures the slideshow window or your full screen — but it cannot capture the "presenter view" (your speaker notes, the next-slide preview, the timer) and the "audience view" (clean slides) as separate video tracks. If you need both, the standard workaround is to record twice: once with presenter view, once with audience view, and edit them together. For 95% of slide recordings, picking the audience window in the capture dialog gives you a clean, watchable result.
Frequently asked
Should I record the presenter view or the audience view?
It depends on the audience. The audience view (full screen, just the slides) is what your viewers actually want to see — clean, no notes, no timer, no toolbars. The presenter view includes your speaker notes, a timer, slide previews, and a pointer — useful if you are practicing the talk or want a behind-the-scenes record. The Pullsy recorder can capture either one: pick the specific window you want in the system capture dialog. Most users pick the audience view for the final recording and the presenter view for practice.
Does the AI transcript capture the slide text or just my narration?
Just your narration. Pullsy transcribes what the microphone hears, not the visual content of the slides. If your slides are mostly text and you read them verbatim, the transcript will look like the slides. If your slides are images or charts and you are explaining them out loud, the transcript will be your explanation. For a presentation where you want both, the video itself is the source of truth — viewers can re-watch the slides while reading the transcript alongside.
Can I record a Google Slides presentation the same way?
Yes — Google Slides runs in a Chrome tab, so it is one of the easier targets. Open the Slides tab, start the presentation (which opens a full-screen view in the same tab), open Pullsy in a second tab, click Start recording, and pick the Slides tab. The slideshow view, your narration, and any presenter notes shown in the Slides interface are all captured. The same workflow works for any browser-based presentation tool — Slides, Pitch, Notion's presentation mode, Canva.
Try the recorder above.
Same flow works for any window — Figma, a Google Doc, a code editor, a browser tab.