DeckBird AI Narrating Agent 3.0 Release
SAN FRANCISCO & TORONTO — DeckBird.ai announces the general availability of its AI Narrating Agent release version 3.0, the most powerful AI narrating agent that supports the narrating and sharing of both presentation slides and videos.
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Live in 73 countries on 4 continents in 10 languages, DeckBird AI Narrating Agent can easily transform presentation slides from static files into multimodal self-running webinars by adding AI powered voices, videos, and user interactions.
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'DeckBird.ai is a game changer for the narrating and sharing of 1 billion presentation slides and videos that are being generated every year by tools such as PowerPoint, Adobe, Canva, Gamma, and others', says David T. Li, the founder and CEO of DeckBird.ai.
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'Without narrating, presentation slides are just a bunch of texts and graphics that lose their meanings and put people to sleep. They may even create confusions and misunderstandings,' Dave said. 'With DeckBird AI narrating agent, presentation slides become alive and engaging, personable and scalable, with consistent high quality. It greatly reduces the need for live presenting while increasing customer reach.'
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Clients see 10x the marketing power and sales leads of their presentation slides and videos, with broad applications in sales, marketing, training, education, real estate, financial services, consulting, and corporate communications.
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DeckBird is fully integrated into the business workflow, and works with Canva, Microsoft, Google, Adobe, Mailchimp, WordPress, HubSpot, Zoom, Salesforce, and ElevenLabs. It is also building plugins for OpenAI, Grok, Anthropic, Google Gemini and NotebookLM.
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Dave showcased the DeckBird AI Narrating Agent at ACTAI Global AI Conference in Maui, Hawaii, with Bill Tai, the legendary seed investor in both Canva and Zoom. NYSE Wired, the media platform of the venerable New York Stock Exchange, also interviewed Dave on DeckBird.ai in Maui.
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Video Narrating
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Users can record video narrating using browser camera and system built-in text prompter, or embed videos from YouTube or Vimeo. Video Collage supports video uploading and mixing. AI powered voices can be added to the video. Video contents can be segmented and highlighted for better viewing. The voice track is indexed for searching.
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Voice Narrating
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Users can clone their own voices as the voice avatar, or choose from 32 system voice avatars in 10 world languages.
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Narrate Once, Speak in Multiple Languages
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DeckBird.ai media player can translate voice and corresponding closed caption in real time. Once narrated in one language, the audience can choose to watch and listen to the presentation slides and videos in their own local languages.
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Video and Slideshow Media Player
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DeckBird.ai media player is the only media player that can play both presentation slides and videos, with built-in support for closed caption, highlighting, content segmentation, and keyword search.
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Meeting Scheduling
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DeckBird media player supports Google Calendar, Microsoft Calendar, Calendly, iCal, and other calendar services to allow meeting scheduling directly within the presentation slides or videos.
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Embed and Share
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The media player can be embedded directly into email, website, messaging apps, and social networks, including Slack, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, TikTok, and WeChat.
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CRM and Analytics
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DeckBird has a built-in CRM that tracks the viewer activities and provides data analytics. It also works with leading CRM systems such as HubSpot and Salesforce.
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Tools
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DeckBird provides a suite of powerful tools for adding user interactions to the presentation slides and videos, such as Action Button, WhatsApp link, Email Turnstile and Auto-Followup, QR code, Discussion Board, and in-app payment and purchase.
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Team Collaboration
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Presentation slides and videos can be narrated and shared by company sales, marketing, and training team. Presentations can be updated per slide without having to resend the entire file.
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Open Standard
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DeckBird is introducing WebMPF (Web Multimodal Presentation Format), a new Internet open standard for adding voice, video, and user interactions to the ubiquitous PDF files.
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Patents Pending
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DeckBird has multiple patent applications in review with USPTO, and is building a patent portfolio around its core technology.
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Founder and Team
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Founder and CEO Dave Li is a serial tech entrepreneur and MIT graduate. He has built a billion dollar tech company without taking any VC funding. Dave is a cycling enthusiast, having cycled in 16 countries in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
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