Auto typer for Google Slides

What it does in Google Slides

You copy text from anywhere, paste it into copypaster's pill instead of into the slide, click into the text box you want to fill, and press play. After a 3-2-1 countdown copypaster types the text into that box one character at a time, at the speed you set, with the bursts, pauses and occasional corrected typo of a person typing. Slides receives ordinary keyboard input, because that is what it is: real operating-system keystrokes sent to the window in front, not a script running inside the page.

Why type into Google Slides instead of pasting?

Google Slides keeps version history under File, then Version history, in the same way Google Docs does. A paste is recorded there as one insertion at one timestamp; text that was typed is recorded as a sequence of smaller edits spread over time. That is a fact about how Slides stores revisions, and it is the reason most people want an auto typer for Slides: they already have the text and want it to arrive the way typing arrives.

A paste into a Slides text box also brings its source formatting along and can resize the box or change the font. Text entered through the keyboard path takes the box's own formatting.

How to auto type into Google Slides

1. Download and open copypaster (free trial - 5 pastes, no card).
2. Copy the text for one text box, then paste it into copypaster's pill - not into the slide.
3. Set a speed. 60-90 WPM reads like an average typist.
4. Leave realistic timing on for natural pauses and the occasional corrected typo.
5. Click into the text box, placeholder or speaker-notes pane so the cursor is blinking inside it.
6. Press play. After the 3-2-1 countdown, copypaster types the text into that box.
7. Repeat for the next box. Each run fills the box your cursor is in and nothing else.

Keep the deck's tab in front until the run finishes: the keystrokes go to whichever window has focus. Slides autosaves constantly, so stopping a run mid-way leaves the text typed so far in the box, exactly as stopping mid-sentence would.

Text boxes, placeholders and speaker notes

Every text box on a slide is its own element, so an auto typer fills the one your cursor is in and cannot tab between placeholders reliably - Slides handles focus differently depending on whether you are editing text or have the box selected as an object. Speaker notes work the same way: click into the notes pane first, then run the typer. Doing several boxes is several short runs, one per box, and each run counts as one paste in the trial.

Speed settings that look natural

• 60-90 WPM - the sweet spot. Reads as a competent typist, and the revision history is indistinguishable from ordinary typing.
• 100-120 WPM - a fast typist. Slightly larger chunks per saved revision, still clearly typed.
• 150 WPM and up - faster than most people type. Use it when getting the text in matters more than how the history reads.

The step-by-step guide covers the free alternatives too, including AutoHotkey on Windows.

Free trial and pricing

The download is free and includes 5 pastes with every feature unlocked, no credit card. After that, plans start at a few euros a month, and there is a one-time lifetime licence for people who use it every week. Current prices are on the pricing section.

What it changes, and what it does not

An auto typer shapes how text arrives: the timing, the pauses, and what the deck's history records. It does not change the words. Anything that reads the text itself - a similarity check, an AI-content check, a person reading the slide - sees the same words whether they were typed or pasted. If what you need is different writing, this is the wrong tool; if what you need is text you already have entered as typing, it is the right one.