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Adding Narration To Your Power Point Presentations
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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.
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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.
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Tutorial: Setting Narration Properties
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Tutorial
The Record Narration dialogue box is displayed.
Record Narration dialogue box
Record Narration dialogue box
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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
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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
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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
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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)
.WAV
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Recording A Voice Narration
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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.
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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
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Recording A Voice Narration
When you finish the presentation, a message box is displayed.
To save slide timings, and the voice narration, click Save
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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