Assistance during the talk

An AI presentation assistant for the moment you start speaking.

Some presentation tools help write a deck. Fenot (formerly FollowMyLead) helps you deliver the one you already have. The app listens during a presentation, compares your talking points with slide content, and navigates an audience view while your controls and PowerPoint speaker notes stay on the presenter side.

What is a presentation assistant?

A presentation assistant helps with preparing or delivering a talk. The term can describe a person supporting the presenter or software for tasks such as drafting slides, rehearsing a script, or controlling a presentation. The useful question is which part of the job you want help with.

Fenot provides presentation assistance during live delivery. It is an AI presentation navigator for a deck you already made, not a slide writer, design service, or public-speaking coach. Use it when you want spoken commands or deck-related talking points to choose the slide while you keep speaking to the audience.

  • Need an outline, new slide content, or a visual redesign? Look for slide-creation or design help; that is not Fenot's role.
  • Need feedback on pacing, body language, or your script? Rehearsal and coaching address a different problem from slide navigation.
  • Need to move around an existing PowerPoint or PDF while talking? Live presentation assistance can reduce the need to reach for slide controls.

Example: revisit an implementation slide during a customer call

Suppose your deck has a slide titled Implementation timeline with notes about migration, staff training, and launch dates. A customer asks about rollout while you are showing the summary. Fenot helps you navigate that existing material; it does not invent an answer to the customer's question.

Choose the mode around how much control you want. This is a rehearsal example, not a promise that every question or paraphrase will select the right slide.

  • Choose the destination yourself: in Voice commands mode, say 'Implementation timeline' or its slide number. Use distinctive titles so that several slides do not compete for the same words.
  • Let your talking points guide navigation: in Context-aware mode, discuss the migration and launch details included in that slide's text or speaker notes. Rehearse those cues with your actual deck and microphone.
  • Keep the summary visible during discussion: use Q&A hold to pause context matching. An explicit title or slide-number command can still request a destination; the manual controls remain available.

Use speaker notes as private matching context

Sparse visual slides do not always contain the words you say aloud. Notes embedded in a PPTX can provide those missing cues. Write a few specific phrases describing each slide's argument, examples, or terminology so the matching index has more than a broad title to work with.

The presenter can expand speaker notes for the current slide without placing them inside the audience view. Standalone PDFs do not supply PowerPoint speaker notes. If you want both exported visuals and note context, open the PPTX together with its matching PDF export.

Presentation assistance for lessons, training, and customer calls

Choose a navigation mode around the kind of conversation you expect, then rehearse that scenario with your actual deck. Hands-free presenting is useful only when the audience sees the right material at the right time.

  • For a lesson, add distinctive definitions or examples to the relevant slide's notes. Practice revisiting those topics without relying on generic words that appear on every slide.
  • For a training session with a fixed order, use Voice commands and say 'next' when you finish each step. A longer explanation will not advance merely because a timer expired.
  • For a customer call, put implementation details and supporting evidence on clearly titled slides. Use a title or slide-number command when you need a precise destination, and hold context matching during open discussion.

Plan the presenter and audience setup

Fenot presents an imported deck in its own audience window. Share that window in a meeting or place it on the audience display, and keep your control screen private. Check the actual window you are sharing before showing confidential notes.

  • Preview imported slides, particularly unusual fonts, complex diagrams, and embedded media.
  • Test microphone permission, transcription, and a few relevant slide matches before the meeting.
  • Practice Q&A hold, explicit voice navigation, and the manual override so you can redirect immediately.

Frequently asked questions

Is this an AI slide generator?

No. Fenot is focused on presenting and navigating an existing deck. It does not write a presentation or generate answers to audience questions.

Can the assistant follow every language switch?

Automatic language detection is available, with a manual language override. Accuracy and switching behavior depend on the speech service, language, microphone, and available audio. Rehearse the languages you plan to use; instant or perfect switching is not guaranteed.

Does it preserve PowerPoint animations?

The imported audience view uses flattened slide visuals. It does not reproduce live PowerPoint animations, transitions, or embedded playback. Conversion may change some visual details; a PDF exported from your original deck provides a useful reference.

Can I stop it during audience questions?

Yes. Use Q&A hold to pause context matching or turn AI navigation off. Recognized question phrases can also trigger a hold, but they cannot reliably identify every conversation with an audience member.

How do I prepare diagram-only or image-only slides?

The matcher uses available slide text and indexed PowerPoint speaker-note phrases, not an interpretation of the diagram image. Add a distinctive cue to that slide's PPTX notes, such as 'Customer feedback returns to onboarding, then improves product adoption.' Use wording that describes your actual diagram. Open the PPTX together with its matching PDF export if you want exported visuals and private note context. Reimport after changing the notes and rehearse the transition. Use Voice commands or manual next/back controls when you want to choose every move, or Hold Q&A to pause context matching.

Can I use a presentation assistant in an online meeting?

You can share Fenot's separate audience window in a meeting tool that supports window sharing. Keep the presenter controls and private notes unshared. Test microphone access and the shared window before the call; this is not a meeting bot or a native integration with every conferencing app.

Is presentation assistance the same as a teleprompter?

No. A teleprompter displays a script for you to read. Fenot can show the current slide's PowerPoint notes privately, but its main task is navigating the audience slides from speech. It does not promise scrolling script-following or public-speaking feedback.

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