3 Ways to Synchronize Your Voice with Presentation

Many teachers want to synchronize voice with their presentation, just as William Jansen said: “I am making a training presentation with my voice for use when I’m not around. How can I capture my own voice and store the sound file integrated in PowerPoint? “. So here I will introduce 3 ways to synchronize voice with presentation.

Create flash-based presentations with synchronized narration from PowerPoint

We all know that PowerPoint has the feature of “record narration”. However, the only thing you can do is recording, synchronization is unavailable. Luckily, some PowerPoint to Flash tools provide such value-added synchronization function to PowerPoint users.

Wondershare PPT2Flash is such a tool. It has a feature of “record narration”. Click it and a small recording window will appear in lower right corner. You can choose which slide you want to record the narration on, see the length of your narration, guide the slides forward or backward and pause or stop your recording all in this small window.

What’s more useful is that the video narration player template enables you to add video lecture beside the presentation. That means you could add the video on which yourself explaining this presentation. Of course this need a little skill, but anyway gives you another choice.

And the best thing of conversion tools is that it can directly translate PowerPoint presentation to SCORM. As SCORM can be imported into LMS (Learning Management System), I think these conversion tools would be teachers’ first choice.

BTW, the best authoring tool of conversion kind is no doubt Articulate Presenter, but its price really shut many users out.

Use online authoring tools to create audio visual synchronized presentation

I know the concept “online” today is quite popular, but I’m still a little bit surprising when I heard about online authoring tools. And I’m even more surprising it can create such an amazing presentation. Take this tool Udutu for example, it create multimedia production which include excellent sound effect. And all the presentation editing process is done on line.

However, unlike most traditional authoring tools, products of online authoring tools can’t be compatible with LMS. The online authoring tools often have their own hosting servers to host the finishing courses and this hosting server need to be paid by month. Now you see, this is how the companies like Utudu make money.

Choose another authoring tool to make presentation

There’s also lots of authoring tools do a really good job on audio integration other than PowerPoint. Some of them are even free to get, such as CourseLab. CourseLab is based on flash editing tech, and can simply insert and synchronize audio files in various formats with the whole presentation. However since PowerPoint has already been popular for years, it’s hard to completely give it up. So if you are really interested in new tech, you could have a try of CourseLab.

All above is my experience in exploring tools for adding synchronized narration to presentations. It is said men are predestinated to explore the world unknown. Hope I could have more findings about e-learning next time.