The illustrated self presentation

To reflect the fact that the work I make is often concerned with abstracting an environment/object/scene through illustrating it from an unusual perspective, I thought I could type out a transcript for my presentation and copy and paste in into google translate. If you make the google translate settings English to English, then it reads it out in this weird sort of robotic voice and the intonation is all off and strange, affecting the delivery of my presentation through the way it is translated in the same way that I try to affect the content of my drawings through how i translate it.

I had the concern that it might be a bit grueling to listen to that voice for 8 minutes straight for my audience, but actually decided that I quite liked the idea of making them feel restless and frustrated, it's in keeping with the surreal theme. I would print off a bunch of transcripts as well so people could definitely understand what was being said as well.

I have encountered several problems with this idea though, unfortunately. Firstly, google translate reads very slowly, so I'm finding it hard to keep enough content in and keeping it under 8 minutes. Also, there is a maximum word allowance on google translate which wouldn't accommodate all the information I'd need it to, so I'd have to keep multiple tabs open with different portions of the transcript in each one, and keep coming out of the power point and into google which might get a bit messy and be a faff. I could of course just use google translate for a bit of the presentation and talk for the rest I suppose but I feel like this is the kind of thing where you have to go all or nothing, otherwise it loses it's effectiveness.

I'm going to keep trying making it work over the next couple of days, by cutting down the transcript and seeing how difficult it actually is to navigate between different google translate tabs and the presentation, but it's looking like it's going to be difficult. I think I might have to resort to just talking in front of the powerpoint, which will be a shame cause that's a bit dry and boring.