Easily Create Explainer Videos From Presentation Slides & Text to Speech

In this post, I’ll show how to easily create explainer videos using Google Slides and Google Vids. Here’s an example explainer video I made using these tools.

Create Your Slides

Go to Google Slides and create a slide for anything you want to show visually in your video. A slide can contain a background, text, images, videos, and more. When creating your slides, write your speaking script in the notes section below each slide preview. In my case, I took the slide design from here.

Import Slides into Google Vids

Click the “Convert to Video” button. This will open the presentation in Google Vids.

Choose the slides you want to import. You can also include AI voiceover, script, and background music. I like to leave this toggle enabled by default.

Edit the Video

Now that you’re in Google Vids, you can edit the video. You will see a video timeline at the bottom.

  • Move the playhead along the timeline to different sections of the video.
  • Click the “Play” button to preview the video.

Click “Voiceover” on the right to edit the script for each slide you imported. The initial script is AI-generated, but you can replace or edit it with the script you wrote in the Google Slides notes field for each slide. Here, you can change the narrator’s voice as well. At this time, Google Vids only supports English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, and German. If you want a voiceover in a different language, you’ll have to import the audio or record your own voice.

If you want to edit the background music,

  1. click on the background music track,
  2. click the speaker icon to the right of the waveform icon

You will see the Sound panel. Click the “All tracks” tab. You will then see the background music and narration audio for each scene. Clicking on each one will allow you to edit the audio for each scene individually. You can also click the “Apply to all audio” button to have your changes apply to all scenes.

Export Video

When you’re done making your changes, click “Share > Download as MP4” to generate and download the video.

Note

In the example video I created, I used HeyGen to create a lip-sync video of the narrator speaking. Google Vids doesn’t offer this feature, and you don’t need it to create explainer videos.

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