🎤 How to Add Voice in PowerPoint Presentation

In this step-by-step tutorial, learn how to add a voice over / narration to a PowerPoint slide presentation. You'll learn three different methods to adding a voiceover, including:
- Simple record tool to insert a recording onto an individual slide
- Record slide show view, which allows you to also include video & insert synchronized annotations
- Free Audacity app to make edits to your voiceover before importing to PowerPoint
👋 Additional resources:
- Audacity: www.audacityteam.org/
⌚ Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
0:52 Add Recording tab to ribbon
2:02 Simple method to add voiceover
5:47 Record slide show to add voiceover
10:55 Edit audio using Audacity & import into PowerPoint
13:57 Save as show or export to video
14:37 Wrap up
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