How to Seamlessly Translate Your Google Slides Presentations (2025 Update)

Preparing presentations for a global audience can be a challenge, but with the right tools, it becomes effortless. This guide will walk you through using Slides Translator for Google Slides, a powerful add-on designed to make your presentations multilingual in minutes.

From text to images and even speaker notes, you’ll learn how to translate your content into over 100 languages while keeping your original formatting intact. This tool is perfect for educators, business professionals, and anyone needing to connect across language barriers.

Slides Translator by Automagical Apps is trusted by over 40 million users worldwide, making it a go-to solution for educators, business professionals, and global teams.

Watch the full video tutorial below to see it in action:

Getting Started with Slides Translator

To begin, open any Google Slides presentation. You’ll find Slides Translator under the “Extensions” menu. Simply click Extensions > Slides Translator > Translate to open the sidebar.

This sidebar is your control panel for all translation tasks. It offers various options, including narration and voice typing, but for this guide, we’ll focus specifically on translation features.

Translating Your Text and Slides

Slides Translator gives you flexible options for translating your presentation content. You can choose to translate specific elements or your entire deck.

• Translate Selected Content

  Use the “Translate” button to translate only what you’ve selected. This could be a single slide, a text box, or a group of selected slides and text boxes. It’s perfect for testing translations or focusing on specific sections.

• Translate All Slides

  The “Translate all slides” button will translate every single slide in your presentation. We recommend starting with a slide or two to see how it works before translating the whole deck.

Choosing Your Translation Engine

You have several powerful translation engines at your disposal:

• Google Translate: Offers support for over 100 languages. This is available to all users.
• DeepL & Gemini: These engines often provide higher quality translations, especially for certain language pairs. They typically require a school district or business license to access.

Free users enjoy unlimited lifetime usage, including up to 200 free slides initially and 100 free slides each month. Paid users benefit from much higher translation caps and access to all advanced features, including premium translation engines and image translation.

Regardless of your chosen engine, Slides Translator maintains your slide’s original styling, positioning, and formatting, ensuring a professional look.

Mastering Image Translation

Translating text within images is a game-changer for presentations with graphics. Slides Translator offers three distinct methods for handling image content.

• 1. Translate Image Text (Extract Only)

  Activate the “Translate Image Text” toggle. With your image or slide selected, click “Translate.” This method extracts the text from the image, translates it, and presents it as a separate, editable text box. The original image remains untouched in the background. This is ideal when the image itself is less important than its textual content.

• 2. Translate Image with Editable Text

  Turn on the “Translate Image” toggle and ensure “With editable text” is also on. Select your image or slide and click “Translate.” The tool will replace the original image with a translated version where the text is fully modifiable. You can change fonts, colors, and sizes. Keep in mind that while text boxes retain their position, font sizes might need slight adjustment after translation.

• 3. Translate Image without Editable Text

  To use this method, enable the “Translate Image” toggle but turn “With editable text” off. Select your image and click “Translate.” This uses a different AI model to generate a translated image where the text is part of the graphic and cannot be edited. It’s often beneficial for complex images with intricate layouts or when the “editable text” method causes blurring. Remember, with this option, fonts are typically standardized to a black font.

Best Practice for Image Translation: It’s often best to approach image translation on a case-by-case basis. Experiment with both “editable text” and “without editable text” options for each complex image to find the best result.

Translating Background Images

What about images locked into your slide’s background? Slides Translator has you covered. Go to Options > Translate background images. You can then apply either the “with editable text” or “without editable text” method, just like with regular images. This is incredibly useful for manipulating text within image assets from third-party sources.

Exploring Advanced Translation Features

Beyond core text and image translation, Slides Translator offers several powerful functionalities to enhance your workflow:

• Make a Copy

  Enable the “Make a copy” toggle and click “Translate all slides.” This creates a brand-new translated copy of your presentation in your Google Drive, saving you the steps of duplicating and renaming files.

• Translate Speaker Notes

  Turn on the “Translate speaker notes” toggle to automatically translate all content within your speaker notes alongside your slides.

• Add a Glossary

  The “Add a glossary” toggle allows you to define how specific keywords or proper nouns should be translated. This ensures consistency for industry jargon or company-specific terminology.

• Summarize Slides

  Click the “Summarize slides” button to generate a new slide at the beginning of your presentation. This slide will contain a five-bullet-point summary of your entire deck, providing a quick overview.

Recommended Tool

Making your Google Slides presentations accessible to a global audience has never been easier. Slides Translator provides a comprehensive suite of features to ensure your message is understood, no matter the language.

Ready to create multilingual presentations with ease? Try Slides Translator today!