In this tutorial I'm going to show how to record audio in PowerPoint slide by
slide so that someone can play your presentation and hear you explaining
each slide this approach is an easy way to share a lecture or conference
presentation with others if you wish to also record your image to appear as a
picture in picture along with the PowerPoint slides you'll need to take a
different approach which I'll cover in another tutorial
first you'll need to prepare your PowerPoint presentation here's one of my
presentations I'm going to use for this tutorial
prepare your slides and order them in the appropriate sequence then use the
notes option to write out what you plan to say alternatively you can just work
from separate lecture notes but you want to avoid making a lot of page-turning
noises either way working from notes will help you remember everything you
wish to say and to keep your presentation as brief as possible in
other words don't try your audience's patience with a lot of rambling
digressions the next step is to record the audio for each slide the exact menu
options will vary depending on your device and version of PowerPoint I'm
using a Mac so if you are using office 365 for Windows or an earlier version
the options may be slightly different but before you record you want to make
sure you have a good microphone and that it is set up correctly go to your system
preferences and select sound
with input selected you'll see what microphones are available such as a
built-in internal microphone when you select it you are then able to set the
input volume
if you connect an external microphone it will appear in the list you can use a
headset or even earbuds as an external microphone and those will usually sound
better than the internal mic on your computer select the one you plan to use
then test it to make sure it's actually recording and that the quality is good
now we can begin recording audio
select a slide where you want to record some audio now go to the insert menu in
the top panel and then audio at the far right select record audio and a box
appears with some controls you can name each audio file slide one two three or
whatever you wish you should have what you plan to say visible in the notes
panel as you see here when you're ready to record click the record button and
the recording begins mangroves occur over a wide range of sedimentary
settings then tap the stop record button select insert and an audio icon appears
on your slide hover the cursor over the icon and a player window appears you
want to play back the recording to ensure the audio is of good quality
nigra is occurred over a wide range of sedimentary settings you can adjust the
volume here if everything sounds good you can proceed to record audio for the
rest of your slides if not you can delete the recording by selecting it and
tapping the delete button on your keyboard then rerecord and continue
recording the audio for the remaining slides
the last step is to save your PowerPoint file and share it
to summarize this approach allows you to easily rerecord a slide if you make a
mistake also you can rearrange your slides and the recorded audio will move
along with the slide if you have a lot of slides you can easily take a break
while recording instead of having to do a marathon recording session as I
mentioned in the beginning if you want to record your image giving the
presentation or create a video of your presentation rather than sharing the
PowerPoint file you'll have to take a different approach using screen capture
software this is the scientist videographer thanks for watching