In this video I'm going to show you how to easily add audio to Google Slides using Mote.
If you're not already familiar with Mote, I think it's by far the most user-friendly
way to add voice comments to Google Docs, Google Sheets, Slides, and Google Classroom.
And if you want to learn more about how to use Mote for voice comments, be sure to check out
my other video on that topic. But now Mote isn't just about using audio recordings and comments.
With this new feature you can also add those audio recordings
and drag and drop them anywhere you want to go on Google Slides, and best of all it's
totally free to use. I'm Sam Kary and this is my YouTube channel for The New EdTech Classroom.
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live on the show, so I hope to see you there. Okay the first thing you're going to need to do is go
to the Chrome Web Store. You're going to want to do this even if you already have Mote installed as an
extension on your browser. Type "Mote" in the search box and then click on the extension. You can see
that I already have the Mote extension installed, so in order to get this brand new update to work,
you may need to uninstall Mote and then reinstall it again. It's really easy to
do that, you just need to click 'Remove from Chrome' and then just choose to add the extension back on.
Once you've reinstalled Mote or added it for the first time, you'll be ready to start adding audio
to Google Slides. So what I'm going to do here is go ahead and jump over to a Google Slide slide
deck to which I want to add some audio. You'll know that Mote has correctly updated to the new version
if you see this purple 'm' icon show up next to the 'present' button. So let's say that I just want
to add an audio explanation to my slides here. All I need to do is click on that purple 'm' icon
and then I'll click on the 'm' again in the box that pops up. I'll say what I want to be recorded,
the spinning circle tells you that it's recording, and when you're finished just click on the 'm' icon
again. There you can choose to listen to the audio file again or trash it and redo it if you need to.
Then to embed it into your Google Slide, just click 'Insert.' On the playback menu you can
choose whether or not you want the audio to play manually when you or your students click on it
or if you choose automatic, that will make it so that when you open up slides in present mode,
the audio starts playing automatically. Then you can also resize that audio file and drag it around
wherever you want it to go on Google Slides. If you choose to have the audio start playing
automatically, once you enter present mode it will start playing. And if you choose "Play on click,"
you or your students would just need to manually click on the audio file to get it to start playing.
Note that this audio file can be played in present mode or when the slides are in edit mode. After you
record your audio it's possible that you might see this error box show up telling you that you
need to ensure that you're signed in to the same Google account in Mote as well as Google Drive.
If you see this error box and you're not able to insert that audio,
all you need to do is log out of your Mote account and log back in. You can do that by
going up to the Mote extension on your Google Chrome browser, clicking on it, click 'Log out,' and
that will take you over to Mote, where you'll be able to fully sign out of your account
and then go through the process of re-signing in to make sure everything is synced up. I hope you
learned how easy it is to add audio to your Google Slides using this brand new feature in Mote. If you
have any questions about adding audio to Google Slides, please put those in the comments below
and again, if you want to learn more about the different features of Mote and how to use
it for voice commenting in Google Classroom, Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Sheets,
be sure to check out my other video on that topic. Thank you so much for watching my video to the end.
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