{"id":23856,"date":"2026-04-16T14:18:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23856"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:18:25","slug":"did-you-know-that-google-slides-can-make-you-into-a-video-avatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/16\/did-you-know-that-google-slides-can-make-you-into-a-video-avatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know that Google Slides can make you into a video avatar?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had no idea! And yet here &#8220;I&#8221; am, thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/docs\/answer\/15082958?hl=en\">this new-to-me feature<\/a>. In at least this first test, the visual likeness is very good, the gestures are a little off, and the voice is that of someone else (not shocking, as the creation flow asked me to read aloud only a couple of numbers):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/JNack-Avatar.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had no idea! And yet here &#8220;I&#8221; am, thanks to this new-to-me feature. In at least this first test, the visual likeness is very good, the gestures are a little off, and the voice is that of someone else (not shocking, as the creation flow asked me to read aloud only a couple of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23856"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23858,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23856\/revisions\/23858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}