Post on 09-Jun-2015
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Adding Narration To Your Power Point Presentations
Benefits of Voice Narration
Presentation publication on the web.
Archiving a meeting for later use, or reference.
To make available to people who cannot attend a presentation in person.
For self-running presentations where no presenter will be in attendance.
Computer Requirements
Your computer must have a sound card and a microphone.
You can either pre-record a narration before delivering the presentation, or you can record your presentation narration during the live presentation.
- This depends on the quality of the microphone and size of the room
- You may be able to capture any comments that are made by your audience as well.
- To play back a narration, the computer will require a sound card and speakers.
Tutorial: Setting Narration Properties
Tutorial
The Record Narration dialogue box is displayed.
Record Narration dialogue box
Record Narration dialogue box
TutorialThe dialogue box displays the amount of free disk space, and the number of minutes that you can record.
If this is the first time you have recorded a voice narration, you will need to set the microphone level, click the Set Microphone level... button
TutorialThe Microphone Check dialogue box is displayed.
Follow the instructions in the dialogue box to set up the microphone Click OK to return to the Record Narration dialogue box
Tutorial Click the Change Quality... button
ORSelect a quality level from the Attributes: box (optionally, click Save As... to name the setting) Click OK Check that you still have enough space on disk to record the narration
Recording A Voice Narration
The final choice to make before recording the narration is:
- Do you want to store narration within the presentation file as an object, or a sound file linked to the presentation.
(Linked sound files offer better performance, and are probably the best choice if you are recording a long narration)
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Recording A Voice Narration
Recording A Voice Narration
Open the presentation
Optionally, select the slide from which you want to start the narration
You can start the recording from any slide.
Recording A Voice Narration
If you are not on the first slide, a message box is displayed prompting you to select the starting point for the narration
Click Current Slide or First Slide as appropriate
Recording A Voice Narration
When you finish the presentation, a message box is displayed.
To save slide timings, and the voice narration, click Save
ReferencesBlakely, B. (2002). How to add narration to power point presentations, Retrieved from http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-add-narration-to-powerpoint-presentations/1039286
Microsoft. (20110). Add narration to a presentation, Retrieved from http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint-help/add-narration-to-a-presentation-HA001230306.aspx#BM1