How to Use Google Duet in Slides

This article explains how to use Google Duet in Slides, including how to generate images and insert them into your presentations. While you can’t use Google Gemini directly in Slides, Duet is another artificial intelligence (AI) tool from Google with direct Slides integration.

How to Work With Duet in Google Slides

Here’s how to start using Google Duet in Slides:

1. Navigate to Google Slides and click + Blank to start a new presentation.

   

2. Click the text box in the Help me visualize section.

   

3. Type a prompt, and then click Add a style.

   

4. Select the style that matches what you want.

   

   If you aren’t sure what you want, click No style.

5. Click Create.

   

6. Wait while Duet generates images.

   

   This can take a while, especially if a lot of people are using Duet.

7. Scroll through the options, and click one of the images that you like.

   

   Click view more if none of the options meet your requirements. Change your prompt to be more descriptive if that still doesn’t give you what you want.

8. Click and drag the image to reposition and resize it until it looks how you want.

   

9. You can continue working on the presentation or have Duet make more images.

   

10. If you accidentally close the Help me visualize section, click Insert > Image > Help me visualize to get it back.

    

    You can also click the Help me visualize icon (box with sparkle in the corner) that’s located on the right end of the menu bar.

11. When the Help me visualize section returns, you can type a new prompt and click Create to generate more images.

    

How Does Google Duet Work in Slides?

Google Gemini is a standalone AI chatbot, so you can’t use it in Slides. Instead of Gemini, which uses Google’s LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) technology, Google integrated their Duet AI into Slides and other Workspace apps like Gmail and Docs. Duet is a similar kind of AI to Gemini, but it uses Google’s more advanced Pathway Language Model 2 (PaLM 2) that’s closer in capabilities to ChatGPT-4o.

Unlike Gemini, which is only accessible as a standalone chatbot, Duet is integrated and available through various Google Workspace apps. It’s capable of helping you write emails in Gmail, documents in Google Docs, and it can generate images for you in Google Slides. It works much like other image-generating AI programs, like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, in that you type a prompt describing the image you want. Then, the AI generates some variations based on that.

What Can Google Duet Do in Google Slides?

Duet’s functionality in Google Slides is limited to generating images for you to use in your presentation. Unlike other implementations of Duet in Workspace apps, it can’t help you write or brainstorm, so you’re limited to generating images.

While Duet can’t help you write a presentation, you can use it with Gemini to accomplish the same basic task. For example, you can ask it to generate a presentation deck on your topic and manually copy that text into Slides or use it as inspiration. You could do the same thing with Duet in Docs and then copy and paste the text into Slides manually.

You can also ask Gemini to generate image prompts that you can paste into the Help me visualize section in Slides if you aren’t feeling especially creative or you’re having trouble getting Duet to provide the exact sort of image that you’re looking for.