How Presenta works
Short version: install it, paste a key, press start. The longer version is below, including the parts most tools gloss over.
A little progress.
A bigger picture.
Good ideas deserve to be understood.
Let's look at the numbers for this quarter.
Veamos las cifras de este trimestre.
Adoption doubled in three markets.
La adopción se duplicó en tres mercados.
Questions at the end, please.
Las preguntas al final, por favor.
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The overlay sits above everything
Presenta runs as a small always-on-top window rather than a slide plugin. That is deliberate: it means it works with Keynote, PowerPoint, Google Slides, a PDF, or a browser demo, without installing anything into them.
The window is pinned above full-screen presentations, so it does not disappear the moment you enter presenter mode. You can drag it, resize it, dim it, and set the font size for the back of the room.
Your microphone, our servers, your subtitles
The app captures your microphone, converts it to a compact audio stream, and sends it to Presenta over an encrypted connection. Translation happens on our servers using our own provider accounts, and the subtitle text streams straight back.
Nothing is stored. Audio is held only as long as it takes to translate the sentence you are in the middle of, and it is never written to disk.
Days are counted where your event is
A licence day is a calendar day in the time zone you pick at checkout, midnight to midnight. Buy one day for the 5th and it works for all of the 5th where you are standing.
Paste the key as soon as you get it. The app will accept it straight away and show when your window opens, so there is no scramble on the morning of the event.
It expects the venue to misbehave
Conference networks drop. When the connection goes, the app reconnects with backoff and tells you what state it is in rather than going silently blank.
Ten minutes before your licence ends you get a warning on the overlay, and a session already in progress is given a short grace period so it finishes on a sentence rather than mid-word.
What you need on the day
- A Windows machine with a working microphone, ideally a lapel or headset mic rather than the room.
- An internet connection. Wired is better than venue wifi if you have the choice.
- Your licence key, pasted into the app at least once before you walk on.