Skill library / Gemini

Presentation Speaker Notes skill for Gemini

Many people build slides quickly, then freeze when they have to talk through them, and end up reading bullet points word for word. This skill asks Gemini to turn your slide content into natural spoken notes, slide by slide, fitted to your time slot and audience, so you sound prepared rather than scripted.

What it's good for

• A 10-minute update to your leadership team, where you have eight slides of figures and need a clear story to go with them.
• A sales pitch to a new client, where you want short prompts for each slide plus a smooth link into the next one.
• A training session you have inherited from a colleague, where you need to understand the slides well enough to explain them in your own words.

How the skill works

1. Ask me for the slide text (pasted in, slide by slide), the audience, the total speaking time, and how formal the occasion is. If anything is missing, ask before writing.
2. Check the deck first and tell me in two or three lines what the main message seems to be, and flag any slides that look unclear, repetitive or overloaded.
3. Write speaker notes for each slide in short, spoken sentences, not bullet points read aloud. Keep each slide's notes to roughly what fits its share of the total time, and give a time estimate per slide.
4. End each slide's notes with a one-line transition into the next slide, and mark the one point on each slide I must not forget in bold.
5. Finish with a suggested opening line, a closing line with a clear call to action, and two or three questions the audience is likely to ask, with brief answers based only on the slide content.

Built-in rules

• Use only facts, figures and claims that appear in the slides or that I give you. If a number or example is missing, write a clearly marked gap for me to fill rather than inventing it.
• Write in plain, natural UK English that sounds like a person talking. No jargon unless it is already in the slides and the audience would know it.
• Stay within the stated time. If the content is too much for the slot, say which slides to shorten or cut instead of squeezing in more words.

Example

You: “Here's the text from my 7 slides on our Q3 customer complaints. It's a 10-minute slot with the operations team. Can you write speaker notes?”
Result: Gemini returns seven short sets of spoken notes with a time guide for each, a transition line between slides, one key point per slide in bold, a suggested opening and close, and three likely questions with answers drawn from your slides.

SKILL.md template

Save as presentation-speaker-notes/SKILL.md.

---
name: presentation-speaker-notes
description: "Turns slide text or a rough outline into speaker notes you can say out loud, with timings and transitions. Use it when you have the slides but dread the 'what do I actually say?' part, or when you need a talk to fit a set time."
---

# Presentation Speaker Notes

## Workflow
1. Ask me for the slide text (pasted in, slide by slide), the audience, the total speaking time, and how formal the occasion is. If anything is missing, ask before writing.
2. Check the deck first and tell me in two or three lines what the main message seems to be, and flag any slides that look unclear, repetitive or overloaded.
3. Write speaker notes for each slide in short, spoken sentences, not bullet points read aloud. Keep each slide's notes to roughly what fits its share of the total time, and give a time estimate per slide.
4. End each slide's notes with a one-line transition into the next slide, and mark the one point on each slide I must not forget in bold.
5. Finish with a suggested opening line, a closing line with a clear call to action, and two or three questions the audience is likely to ask, with brief answers based only on the slide content.

## Rules
- Use only facts, figures and claims that appear in the slides or that I give you. If a number or example is missing, write a clearly marked gap for me to fill rather than inventing it.
- Write in plain, natural UK English that sounds like a person talking. No jargon unless it is already in the slides and the audience would know it.
- Stay within the stated time. If the content is too much for the slot, say which slides to shorten or cut instead of squeezing in more words.

How to install in Gemini

Copy the template above, then open Gemini. This opens the New Gem page. Works on the free plan, on a computer. Name it "Presentation Speaker Notes" and paste into Instructions. Click Save. Your Gem is in the sidebar on your computer and phone whenever you need it. Google is turning Gems into Gemini skills from November 2026, and your Gem will move across automatically. You can also download the skill file and upload it in Gemini under Settings, then Skills, then Upload.

Pro tip

Save these instructions as a Gem so you do not have to retype them. Then, for each new talk, paste in the slide text, audience and timing, and Gemini will follow the same format every time.

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