[sbarg]

Not at all. Slides are to support a talk. I find most of them fairly useless without the speaker audio/video.

[blt]

The quality of a talk is probably inversely proportional to the "stand-alone-ability" of the slides. If you can get all the information from the slides they're way too dense. The best lecturers use the slides for pictures and as an outline, but deliver most of the information through speech.

[otikik]

I think slides should be useless without the speaker. If I don't need the speaker to understand the talk, then it was not a good talk.