How to Record a Voice Narration for a Powerpoint Presentation
If you want your presentation to be a stand alone and be able to forward it to many people, you can use the voice narration feature to record your voice giving the presentation but without actually being there. This is great if you want to disseminate a presentation to large groups of people in different locations and when you don’t have the manpower and money to conduct the presentations in person. In this tutorial, I will show you how to record your voice on a presentation.
Please Note: Before using this feature, there are four things you need to think about so that you can do this as quickly and efficiently as possible. You need to think about the voice that will be used (yours or someone else), a script, and the sound card and microphone capabilities of your computer. First, you need to decide if your voice is good enough for narration or if you can ask a buddy to do the voice over for you. Second, you need to write down what’s going to be said – You need to have the material ready to be read in order not to waste time and focus. Lastly, check out that the microphone and the sound card in your computer work. Go ahead and do a test recording and play it back before actually doing the voice narration for your presentation. Once all these things are ready to go then just follow the next quick steps.
Go to Start>Programs>Microsoft Program to open the program. Open the presentation that you will be working on. Click on the first slide where you want to start the voice narration, now go to Slide Show>Record Narration.
The “Record Narration” pop up window box appears. Here you can adjust the microphone level and set the “Change Quality” of the recording. First, click the “Set Microphone Level” button and test the microphone, and after you’re done click OK. Then click the “Change Quality” button, and select the sound quality of the recording – you can make it sound like a “CD, Radio or Telephone Quality.” Make your selection and hit OK.
Now the presentation changes to Slide Show view and you can start recording your narration. Remember to click from one slide to the next when you’re ready. Once you’re done, save the presentation. A tiny sound icon will appear on the lower hand right corner of the slides to remind you that the slides have a voice recording.
Fantastic! Play it back and put it to good use.
