Creating Audio files to Start Automatically with Each Slide

1. Creating Audio files to Start Automatically with Each Slide Team martha-david November 16, 2011

2. Create audio, insert, auto-start • To get audio to play upon entering a slide, and stop when leaving the slide: • In a PowerPoint slide, select Insert • Select the Audio icon in the toolbar Ribbon, on the right • Select Record Audio • Record your audio, which is inserted into the slide as a .WAV sound file, and a speaker icon is createdin the slide (which can be moved about) • Test your audio file • Left click on the speaker icon, which will launch the Audio Tools above and at the right of the Ribbon • Select Playback • In the Audio Options section, Select Start • The default is Start: On Click. Select and change the menu to Start: Automatically • Save project • Now when this slide opens, the audio clip should start playing, and will stop when the mouse is clicked for the next slide November 16, 2011

3. Make slide text and audio file length match • Design and storyboard your slides so that a lot of text will have more audio, and a little text will have brief audio • When everything is set, you can make the audio icon invisible or very small and reposition it on the slide, so that it doesn’t distract from the textual content November 16, 2011