November 13

💾 Increased File Upload Limit:

  • Paid users can now upload files up to 50 MB, perfect for presentations with a large number of images or complex content.

📏 Truncation Warnings for Large Files:

  • If your PPTX or PDF file exceeds 40 pages, we will provide a warning message indicating that truncation may occur to ensure smooth processing.

📂 New File Format Support:

  • You can now upload CSV and XLSX files, expanding the range of file formats we support for data-driven content generation.

November 8

⚙️ Improved Generation Robustness:

  • Our generation process is now even more robust, resulting in fewer “server busy” or timeout errors, providing you with a smoother experience.

📊 Enhanced Chart Generation:

  • Chart generation can now read and process content directly from links, making it easier to create data-driven visuals.

🌍 Expanded Language and Content Support:

  • We can now read subtitles in additional languages, including Italian and Indonesian, and process YouTube and PDF links for broader content compatibility.

⚠️ Enhanced Text Length Warnings:

  • For text that may be too long, we now display a warning to help you adjust content before processing.

November 1

🛡️ Enhanced Server Reliability:

  • We've updated our server reliability, reducing the occurrence of server busy or timeout errors. You can now enjoy a smoother and more consistent experience.

🎬 Updated Video Generation Workflow:

  • The video generation workflow has been improved. You will now be able to see detailed status updates, including pending, queued, 10% progress, and more, to keep you informed at every step.

🖥️ Dashboard UX Enhancements:

  • We have made several UX changes to the dashboard to improve navigation and user experience. These updates aim to provide a more intuitive and seamless interface.

October 24

🔄 Updated Referral System:

  • We've revamped our referral system. Now you can easily refer friends and colleagues, and both of you will receive benefits when they convert to paying users.

📚 Improved "My Resources" Page:

  • The "My Resources" page has been updated for better management of your knowledge library. You can now organize, search, and access your resources more efficiently.

✨ DALL·E Image Generation Now Produces 2 Images:

  • When generating images using DALL·E, you will now receive three images instead of one, giving you more options to choose from.

October 17

🔄 Enhanced Video Creation Process:

  • We’ve improved the video creation workflow to make it faster and more accurate. Now, you can generate videos from slides even quicker, with enhanced AI voiceovers and smoother transitions.

🔧 Actionable Error Messages:

  • We’ve added more actionable error messages to help you quickly understand and resolve any issues that may arise during your content creation process.

✨ Improved Account Management:

  • While we hope you never need to use it, we’ve made improvements to the UI for canceling or deleting your account, making it smoother and easier to manage.

October 11

🔄 Translate Your PPTX Workflow:

  • The ability to translate your PowerPoint presentations (PPTX) is now available as a workflow. You can use this feature for creating videos (try) or as a separate task (try), giving you flexibility in managing your content translation needs.

October 9

🎵 Upload Your Own Background Music:

  • You can now upload your own audio files to use as background music in your videos, giving you more creative control over your projects.

📑 PPTX Speaker Notes as Initial Transcripts:

  • PowerPoint presentations (PPTX) with speaker notes will now automatically have transcripts initialized with speaker notes for video creation, streamlining the process and reducing manual input.

October 7

🎥 Generate Video Page by Page:

  • You can now generate videos page by page, allowing for more flexibility and control in the video creation process.

✨ UX Improvements:

  • Improved the user experience on the summary page, making it easier to navigate and understand the generated content.

🔧 Reliability Improvements:

  • Enhanced the reliability of video generation, especially when using avatars and subtitles, ensuring smoother and more consistent results.

October 1

📄 Improved PDF conversion:

  • More accurate content generation when you only use one document. It is best when you want to convert your research paper, thesis, or any other long document into slides.

🖼️ Layout Update:

  • Added the layout of "Background Only." This is best for your blank page.

🔧 Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed the bug related to saving and loading profile. Also fixed an issue causing video generation to fail.

September 28

📊 Chart Content Generation:

  • You can use charts to generate different kinds of content, including maps (world, 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺), line charts, bar charts, and pie charts.

🤖 Smarter Chart Chatbot:The chatbot for charts is now smarter and understands your follow-up questions.

🌍 Multilingual Consent Recording:You can now record your consent in non-English languages, making it easier for non-English speakers.

September 4

📊 Largely Improved Chart Generation:

  • You can now save the generated charts to your library.
  • Start new chart projects easily with the updated interface.
  • View the sources used for chart generation when using online search.
Try it.

🖼️ Thumbnails Updated: The thumbnails for both slides and charts will be up to date for a better experience.

🎤 Improved Voice Cloning Reliability: We have enhanced the reliability of cloned voice generation, providing more accurate and stable results.

September 2

👤 New Avatars Added: We have added 5 more available avatars. Female: Lori and Meg, and Male: Harry, Max, and Jeff.

↩️ Undo Script Editing Changes: You can now undo changes during script editing, making it easier to revert to previous versions and enhance your workflow.

August 30

🎨 Favorite Color for Image Searches: You can now add your favorite color when searching for images, either during the design step or while editing a slide. This feature allows you to tailor your presentations even more to your aesthetic preferences.

📄 Social Posts Downloadable as PDF: Social posts can now be downloaded as PDFs, and we've also resolved the logo bug for a smoother experience.

🇵🇰 Added Urdu (from Pakistan) as a Language: Urdu has been added as a supported language, making your content more accessible to Urdu-speaking audiences.

August 26

🖼️ Add Images Freely: Now you can freely add new images to your projects! Enhance your presentations with custom images to make them more engaging and visually appealing.

🎥 Improved PPT to Video Workflow: We've enhanced the PPT to video workflow, making the process smoother and more reliable. Additionally, we've fixed a few bugs to ensure a better user experience.

📱 UI/UX Improvements on Mobile: We’ve improved the user interface and user experience on mobile devices, ensuring a smoother and more intuitive experience for mobile users.

August 26

🖼️ Add Images Freely: Now you can freely add new images to your projects! Enhance your presentations with custom images to make them more engaging and visually appealing.

🎥 Improved PPT to Video Workflow: We've enhanced the PPT to video workflow, making the process smoother and more reliable. Additionally, we've fixed a few bugs to ensure a better user experience.

📱 UI/UX Improvements on Mobile: We’ve improved the user interface and user experience on mobile devices, ensuring a smoother and more intuitive experience for mobile users.

August 23

🎥 New Workflow: PPT to Video: The new workflow of PPT to video is now available! You can upload your existing PPT, PPTX, or PDF files, and our AI will add scripts, voiceovers, and convert them into videos. Easily transform your presentations into engaging video content. Try it.

🔧 Bug Fixes: We've fixed some issues with reading YouTube links and web links, ensuring smoother integration for your projects.

August 18

🗣️ Voice Cloning for Scripts: You can now clone your voice directly on the scripts page, allowing you to create more personalized voiceovers for your projects. Easily generate voice clones and integrate them into your videos or presentations.

🚫 Hide Pages: Introducing the ability to hide pages from your projects. Hidden pages will be automatically skipped during presentations or video creation, giving you more control over the final content without deleting anything.

💾 Save Chart Projects: You can now save your chart projects, allowing you to come back and edit or reuse your data visualizations at any time. Keep your work organized and accessible for future use. Try it.

🛠️ Roadmap & Feature Requests: You can now add your feature requests and see what’s in development! Visit our roadmap to submit your ideas at https://chatslide.canny.io/backlog and view all features currently in development at https://chatslide.canny.io/.

August 4

📊 Dashboard Grid View: The dashboard now includes a grid view option, offering an alternative to the traditional list view for a more organized and flexible layout. Try it.

🔍 Enhanced Chart Search: You can now opt to search online for charts using our chatbot, making it easier to find and integrate data visualizations into your projects. Try it.

🖼️ Improved Image Generation: We've made further improvements to our image generation feature, enhancing the quality and variety of generated images for your projects.

July 21

🎨 Improved Design of the Scripts Page: We've enhanced the design of the scripts page for a more intuitive and visually appealing experience.

🔊 More Reliable Generation of Voices and Videos: Our platform now ensures even more reliable generation of voices and videos, providing better quality and consistency for your projects.

🖱️ UX Improvements: You can now paste text directly from your clipboard on the summary page, making it easier to incorporate content into your projects.
📚 eLearning Added as a Scenario: We've added eLearning as a new scenario, offering tailored features and optimizations for educational content.

July 19

📈 Improved Chart Accuracy and Editing: Our interactive charts now offer enhanced accuracy, and you can also add or delete columns and rows for greater editing flexibility. Try it.

📄 Enhanced Document Reading: We've further improved the quality and reliability of our document reading features, ensuring better results for your projects.

🔧 Teams Function Fixes: We've resolved several bugs related to our teams functionality, ensuring a smoother and more reliable experience for team collaboration.

July 15

🔊 New Voice Cloning: Our latest voice cloning technology is now available, offering improved quality for non-English use cases. The credit cost is also reduced. Try it.

📊 Interactive Chart Editing: You can edit interactive charts directly within our platform. Additionally, you will be able to save and export the charts as PNG files soon. Try it.

🖼️ Improved Image Reading and Generation: We've enhanced the reliability and quality of our image reading and generation features, ensuring better results for your projects.

July 12

🛠️ Slides Toolbar Overhaul: We've streamlined the toolbar by merging some features and adding new ones. A notable addition is the ability to realign all elements on a slide page, giving you more control over your layout. The button is .

🕰️ Version History (Beta): You can now view your project's version history, revert to previous versions, or compare different iterations. The button is .

Currently, this information is saved in your browser, with server-side storage coming soon.

🎬 Subtitles to Your Videos: We've brought back transitions and introduced the option to add subtitles to your videos.
Stay tuned for the upcoming feature to customize background music.
📊 Multiple Color Charts: We now support multiple color charts for your data visualization needs.
Coming soon: the ability to edit charts interactively.

July 10

🎨 Design Step Layout Choices: You can now choose (and ban) from various layouts during the design step. There is also a 'no image' option for a cleaner look.
✍️ Script Step Customization: In the script step, you now have the option to fine tune your script generation, and even directly write your own scripts for more personalized content.
🔄 Custom Logo Positioning: You can move the logos around and apply the custom logo position to all slide pages, providing more flexibility in your design.

July 2

📊 Interactive Charts: We’ve enhanced the chart generation experience with a new interactive mode. Now, you can generate interactive charts, and soon, you’ll be able to edit them directly on the webpage.
🏷️ Customizable Social Post Logos: You can now change the logo on social posts and add your own branding. More templates are on the way.
⬆️ Enhanced Content Reading: Our content engine is now more accurate and efficient, making it easier to generate relevant content.

June 24

🔄 Move Elements on Slides: We have recreated the editing experience, now you will be able to move the elements on the slide pages around, and resize the text and image boxes. You will also be able to realign them with ease.
📄 Generate Slides with More Pages: Now you will be able to create slides with more pages, up to 60 pages. More pages will cost more credits.
🎨 New Design Page: The user interface of design page is updated.

June 19

🪑 Free Team Seats: Now we offer team seats on Free tier for PRO and ULTIMATE users. PRO users can get 1 extra seat. ULTIMATE users can get 5 extra seats. These new seats will still be on Free tier, but will have access to the projects shared in the team.
📂 Upload PPTX Template: You can upload a PPTX file as a template for your slides. We currently can only read the background.

June 13

🖼️ Upload Image as Resource: Now you can upload images as a supporting resource. We will use AI to read the resource.
🎨 Image Popup Updates: The user interface of image popup is updated for better clarity and experience.
⭐️ Image Generation: We have a different portal for image generation now, you can save the generated image as your resource, and use it in the slides or social posts.
👀 DrLambda's Makeover: The landing page of DrLambda gets a makeover, to reduce the confusion between DrLambda and ChatSlide.
Users of DrLambda will have access to slides, charts, images, videos features. ChatSlide will be a vertical product focused on Slides.
💲 Price Adjustments: The lifetime price for ULTIMATE was adjusted.

June 8

👔 Teams (Beta): You can purchase new seats for your team. One seat costs $99 (lifetime). All invited team members will have the same access to PRO tier, and you can share the projects with them.
📄 Apply Branding to One Page: You can now select to apply branding choices (logo, logo position, background) to only one specific page.
➡️ Right to Left Layouts If you start a project in Arabic or Hebrew, the text will align from right to left.
🐞 Bug Fixes: We have fixed a number of bugs, including issues with downloading images, exporting files, and more.

June 4

😀 Icon Library: You can search for icons in the image selection, in addition to images, gifs, and illustrations.
🏷️ Rename Your Project: You can rename a created or cloned project for better management.
📱 Social Post Templates: We have new templates for Social Posts now, try it out!
🎙️ Voice Cloning for PRO users: Voice cloning is accessible to all PRO and ULTIMATE users. We are still improving the quality for non-English ones.

May 30

🧠 GPT-4o as Default: For all paying users, GPT-4o is the default LLM. Enjoy!
🖼️ Download Slides Thumbnail: You will also be able to download the slides thumbnail in the slides export pop up.
🌐 Read Webpages Better: Now our system reads webpages better, more contents are supported.

May 27

🎤 Voice Cloning (Beta): Voice cloning is available for ULTIMATE users to use. You can use this to clone your voice and then create video with the cloned voice. PRO users will have access to this in one week.
📱 New Social Post Template: The template for quote sharing is updated.

May 23

🎤 Audio Files as Sources: You can now upload your audio files as a source, it can be a podcast, a class recording, etc. We support formats like MP3, M4A and WAV.
🌐 Improved Webpage Reading: Now the AI can read the webpages (either provided by you or searched online) faster and more accurate.
🪟 Apply Layout to All Pages: You can select a favorite layout for all of your non-cover slide pages.

May 17

⚙️ Design Profile: Now you can save your design profile (all settings on your design page). You can apply the profile to any slide deck you create later.
📦 Download Social Post: Social Post can be downloaded in a zip file, no need to download page by page!
🧠 GPT-4o for Chatbot: You can turn on GPT-4o for your chats with slide, scripts, and charts. It will cost 5 credit per message. GPT-3.5 is still free for chats.
🔍 New Slide Template: Business Review is available for slides.

May 16

⚡️ Fast File Processing: Now we can read and export your files at a higher speed.
💛 UX Improvements: More UX improvements on the summary page and design page of the slides workflow.
💲 Price Adjustments: The onetime price for PLUS and PRO tiers are adjusted.
💸 Join Affiliate Program: Get paid for your shared content when they drive conversion!
Learn more.

May 13

🧠 GPT-4o is Here: Now paid users have access to the latest GPT model, enjoy the faster response!
🌈 Custom Text Color: You can pick custom color for different parts of your text on slides.
👀 UX Improvements and Bugfixes: We did a number of UX improvements and bugfixes. The missing image issue when exporting is resolved. Creating charts also gets more stable.

May 12

📈 Chat with Charts (Beta): The Beta version is available to all ULTIMATE users. This feature will be released to all PRO users once we believe it is stable and accurate.
🍎 Apple File Formats Support: We support uploading Pages and Keynotes file formats. We also support exporting to Keynotes now.
🏷️ Price Update: Price for ULTIMATE LIFETIME is updated. The current price will be available until June 12.

May 6

💸 Make Money from Your Content: Now, you can share your content along with your affiliate program (Rewardful) code. Earn money when your audience converts to paying users. You'll receive 30% of all their payments. Detailed instructions are on the way...
Learn more.
🤖 Script Chatbot: Enhance your scripts with our chatbot! Translate, change tone, add details—simply give your command.
🐞 More Bugs Fixed: We've squashed some more bugs for smoother performance.
🚀 Pricing Update: Our ONETIME prices have been updated. The PRO ONETIME plan is now available.

May 3

✍️ Two More Outline Structure Modes: The two new modes are Detailed Outline and Structure of a Source (available only under from file mode). You can either provide your own detailed outline, or ask AI to follow the structure of a source.
📁 Folders: Use folders to better manage your projects.
🏷️ Logo Positions: Instead of the lower left, you can put the logo at any corner of your slide.
🎥 Embed YouTube (beta): You can embed a YouTube video in the slides, just click on one image and you will see the embed choice.
💨 Video Transition Effects: Slide-In and Dissolve are available for transition effects.
💻 Infrastructure Upgrades: Increase server capacity and it is less busy than before!

May 1

🔢 Customize deck structure: you can specify the structure you want to have for a deck.
For example, in a slide deck about the richest people in the world, you can have Introduction, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates as the structure.
🌅 New slide template: Creative Brief template is available now.
✍️ Citations page: if you upload resources, you will have the option to add the citations as the last page.
🐞 Numerous bug fixes: we fixed several bugs related to generating social posts, choosing customized template color, etc. If you find one, feel free to post in our Discord channel.

April 28

🌐 Multilingual Voices
New multiligual voices available! Those voices can speak in any language depending on your scripts.
🇺🇸 Hello, my name is nova.
🇫🇷 Bonjour, je m'appelle nova.
🎧 Hi-Fi Voices
PLUS

Now the voices are also available in Hi-Fi, the credit cost may increase in the future.
🔊 Background Music Volume
Now you can adjust the volume of your background music right from your settings.
💯 Slide Views Counts
Now available at Discover page.
Check it out.

April 26

📝 Edit Fonts for the Whole Deck
Customize your whole deck at once with font editing! You can find this either on the design page, template card on the slide page, or just talk with our ChatBot.
🍏 Mac Video Audio Issue Fixed
🛠️ Number of Usability Enhancements

April 24

💳 Payment Flexibility
Expanded Payment Options: Choose from One-Time or Lifetime payments, in addition to our regular subscription plans, to best suit your needs, whether for students working on final or professionals.
Learn more.
📤 Video Sharing
Share with Ease: Now you can easily share your videos for better exposure.
See an example.
🛠️ Bug Fixes and Speed Improvements
Smoother and Faster: We've fixed issues like slide generation errors and slow document processing. Enjoy quicker and more reliable performance across all features.

April 21

🌍 More Accents and Languages
We've expanded our language options to include more accents for 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇸🇬🇮🇳🇮🇪 English, 🇭🇰 Chinese, 🇨🇦🇨🇭🇧🇪 French, 🇦🇹🇨🇭 German, and 🇻🇪 Spanish. 🆕 Added support for 🇩🇰 Danish and 🇮🇩 Indonesian languages!
🎨 Customizable Template Themes
You can now choose your favorite theme color for templates, making your experience even more personalized.
📏 Choose Your Slide Deck Length
Tailor the length of your slide decks to fit your needs—perfect for presentations of any duration.
🤖 Smarter AI Chatbot
Our AI chatbot is now smarter than ever. It can split the page when it is too long, or say it is confused when it actually is. You can also 👍👎 on the chatbot. Please feel free to 👎 thumb down on the chatbot when something isn’t right so we can learn and improve.

April 20

🎬 12 New Scenarios
We have more scenarios available, they will allow for more specific slide deck structures. For example, if you choose a tutorial, we will add a quiz at the end of the deck. The tones of slide decks will also be different. For example, a sales pitch will use more persuasive word.
📝 Outlines Page View
Now you can edit the outlines faster with our Page View.