How AI is used here

slide2video uses generative AI to turn your slides into a narrated video. This page says exactly what the AI does, what it never does, and where we stand on the debate about AI and learning.

What the AI does

• Reads your slides and the files you add, then asks you a few questions about length, voice and anything unclear.
• Writes the narration from your material, close to your own words, and designs the motion.
• Speaks it with a synthetic voice (ElevenLabs or Microsoft, your choice) and, if you ask, adds music and short clips (Google).
• It runs on Claude in one of two ways: under your own Claude account, on your own computer or in your own Claude session, or through slide2video's own connection to Anthropic's API, if you'd rather not set anything up. The Privacy policy lists every service and what it receives.

What the AI never does

• It never talks to your audience. They get a video, not a chat. Nobody watching is asked to type anything into an AI.
• It never adds facts. Your slides and the files you add are the only source. If it isn't in your material, it isn't in the video.
• It never answers your questions. A question you put in your deck for your audience is shown as you wrote it and left open. The video may add questions of its own, and they are marked as its own.
• It never publishes. You watch first, say what to change, and the video goes only where you put it.
• No profiles, no advertising. Not of you, not of anyone in your material.

School projects

Generative AI in schools is a live debate, and we think the concerns are fair. The main worry is students handing their thinking to a machine: writing, answering, summarising. Several large districts paused student-facing generative AI in 2026, and this article from Seattle lays out the case well.

slide2video turns slides someone already made into a video. It doesn't write the slides, the essay or the answers. Teachers use it for their own lessons, and students can use it to make a study video from school slides, such as a deck their teacher shared when there is no video. Either way the AI works only from the slides it is given, never answers the questions in them, and nobody watching talks to an AI. School projects never contain student information, not even the uploader's own (see the Terms).

A teacher explaining is still better than a video explaining. These videos are for the rewatch at home, the day someone was absent, the week before a test.

Before using a video with a class, check your district's policy on AI-made material. Some districts require approval or forbid it. Students: check your teacher's and your school's rules before using a video made here, and upload a teacher's slides only if you're allowed to. If your district wants to vet slide2video, the Privacy policy lists every service involved, and a Washington Student Data Privacy Agreement is available on request.

What may change

These are the rules today. If we ever add a feature where a viewer interacts with the AI, this page changes first, and the feature is something you choose to turn on, never the default.

Last updated 2026-10-19.