dsh-paper-slides

Turning a paper into an academic talk, the most dangerous shortcut is drafting from a remembered abstract. dsh-paper-slides removes that temptation: give it a DOI and your slot length, and it reads the full text, budgets each beat to the venue convention, builds the deck around the figures, and writes the speaker notes as the sentence you will actually say out loud.

The key tool behind the scenes is plan_talk. It turns the conventions of five common venues—seminar, conference, defense, proposal, and journal club—into structured data: how many slides each beat receives, what belongs on the slide versus what belongs in the spoken notes, and which file formats the room expects, whether self-contained HTML or an editable .pptx. You plan before you draft, so the result is a talk with rhythm rather than a paper squeezed into slides.

Best suited to researchers preparing a group-meeting report, a conference presentation, a thesis defense, a proposal defense, or a journal-club session—anyone who wants the talk grounded in the full text, structured by the venue expectations, and delivered as a file the audience can open.