Narrating in Powerpoint vs Articulate

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Alanna Turco

What is the best way to make the narration seem smoother and less choppy by
starting and stopping narration on each slide. Pros and cons either way?
 
IMHO making individual narrations for individual slides, is the best way to go.

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Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


What is the best way to make the narration seem smoother and less choppy by
starting and stopping narration on each slide. Pros and cons either way?
 
Do you mean in powerpoint or in an outside program (like audacity) and then importing them in?
IMHO making individual narrations for individual slides, is the best way to go.

--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


What is the best way to make the narration seem smoother and less choppy by
starting and stopping narration on each slide. Pros and cons either way?
 
I prefer to use software other than PowerPoint to make my narrations and then insert them into PowerPoint.

--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


Do you mean in powerpoint or in an outside program (like audacity) and then importing them in?
IMHO making individual narrations for individual slides, is the best way to go.

--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


What is the best way to make the narration seem smoother and less choppy by
starting and stopping narration on each slide. Pros and cons either way?
 
Hi,

I use Audacity which is free. Do the narrations externally and then insert
them. Finally rehearse the timings. I did do the sound all in one file, but
there was a lot of tweaking of timing to get it to run correctly. Individual
sounds on each slide is a good alternative.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

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Regards,
Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP

Please tell us your PowerPoint version

Tutorials and PowerPoint animations at
the original www.pptworkbench.com
glen at pptworkbench dot com
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Do you mean in powerpoint or in an outside program (like audacity) and then
importing them in?
IMHO making individual narrations for individual slides, is the best way to
go.

--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


What is the best way to make the narration seem smoother and less choppy by
starting and stopping narration on each slide. Pros and cons either way?
 
Hi,

I use Audacity which is free. Do the narrations externally and then insert
them. Finally rehearse the timings. I did do the sound all in one file, but
there was a lot of tweaking of timing to get it to run correctly. Individual
sounds on each slide is a good alternative.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

--

Regards,
Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT  MVP

Please tell us your PowerPoint version

Tutorials and PowerPoint animations at
the originalwww.pptworkbench.com
glen at pptworkbench dot com
------------------------------------------


Do you mean in powerpoint or in an outside program (like audacity) and then

IMHO making individual narrations for individual slides, is the best way to
go.

--
  Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


What is the best way to make thenarrationseem smoother and less choppy by
starting and stopping  narrationon each slide.  Pros and cons either way?
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Alanna, you have another option that automatically gives you perfectly
smooth narration: our products Speech-Over and Record-Over
(www.speechover.com), which attach narration clips to individual
PowerPoint slide objects. You can use mic recording, file import or
TTS voices. The resulting synched narration is converted to Flash by
Articulate and most other PPT-to-Flash tools.

Joel Harband
Tuval Software Industries
www.speechover.com
 
Joel - interesting.

I'm not sure I totally understand - does your software convert my
voice/script/narration etc into a voice over or is it my own voice that will
be heard? How does it sync with the animations?



Hi,

I use Audacity which is free. Do the narrations externally and then insert
them. Finally rehearse the timings. I did do the sound all in one file,
but
there was a lot of tweaking of timing to get it to run correctly.
Individual
sounds on each slide is a good alternative.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

--

Regards,
Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP

Please tell us your PowerPoint version

Tutorials and PowerPoint animations at
the originalwww.pptworkbench.com
glen at pptworkbench dot com
------------------------------------------


Do you mean in powerpoint or in an outside program (like audacity) and
then

IMHO making individual narrations for individual slides, is the best way
to
go.

--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


What is the best way to make thenarrationseem smoother and less choppy by
starting and stopping narrationon each slide. Pros and cons either way?
Click to expand...

Alanna, you have another option that automatically gives you perfectly
smooth narration: our products Speech-Over and Record-Over
(www.speechover.com), which attach narration clips to individual
PowerPoint slide objects. You can use mic recording, file import or
TTS voices. The resulting synched narration is converted to Flash by
Articulate and most other PPT-to-Flash tools.

Joel Harband
Tuval Software Industries
www.speechover.com
 
What is the best way to make the narration seem smoother and less choppy by
starting and stopping narration on each slide. Pros and cons either way?
Click to expand...

Hi Alanna,

When creating narrations, I think it depends on the content. In some
cases, recording narration one slide at a time - stopping or pausing
in between is the only option, particularly when the material is a bit
dense or technical. However, other times a more naturual or
extemporaneous presentation style works where you just speak straight
through all of the slides (as if you were in front of a live
audience). So, I think it depends.

I thought about this use case quite a bit as I'm currently developing
a software product for creating web presentations. The tool is
designed primarily for creating audio/video presentations that are
synched up with PowerPoint slides. The resulting presentation can be
published to Windows Media, Quicktime, or Flash formats.

Our software allows the flexibility to narrate slide-by-slide
(stopping in between) or running straight through. In fact, you can
even record several slides then stop. Each time you stop, you create
a "clip". Slides always remain in synch with however many clips your
record. Clips can be edited, deleted, or shifted around and the
related remain in synch.

If you're interested, the product is called iPresent Presio. It is
currently in beta and you can download a free version that allows you
to create up to 5 complete presentations.

Here's a quick start video that shows how to create an audio with
slides presentation using Presio:
http://ipresent.net/support/tutorials/quick_start/

Good luck.

Carmen Ferrara
www.ipresent.net
 
Joel - interesting.

I'm not sure I totally understand - does your software convert my
voice/script/narrationetc into a voice over or is it my own voice that will
be heard?  How does it sync with the animations?












Alanna, you have another option that automatically gives you perfectly
smoothnarration: our products Speech-Over and Record-Over
(www.speechover.com), which attachnarrationclips to individual
PowerPoint slide objects. You can use mic recording, file import or
TTS voices. The resulting synchednarrationis converted to Flash by
Articulate and most other PPT-to-Flash tools.

Joel Harband
Tuval Software Industrieswww.speechover.com- Hide quoted text -

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Alanna,

The answer to your first question is: both. The Speech-Over software
has a recording dashboard that lets you record your own voice and also
a text-to-speech dashboard that accepts your text input and converts
it into a professional-sounding TTS voice, using TTS voices from
vendors like AT&T. You can use the methods individually or in
combination. The Record-Over software only has the recording
dashboard.

In answer to your second question, both Speech-Over and Record-Over
automatically synch the narration you add with the slide animations .
This works by letting you add your narrations per slide object, either
text or graphic. Individual narration clips are created and
automatically timed with the objects' animation effects. If an object
doesn't yet have an animation effect, the Speech-Over adds one for
you. The resulting slide show plays like an animated talking movie in
which it is perfectly clear about which slide objects the voice-over
is talking.

This software lets you use PowerPoint more effectively in education,
training and business applications.

If you want to experiment, you are welcome to download a free trial
from our site www.speechover.com. Happy to answer any further
questions.

Joel

Joel Harband
Tuval Software Industries
www.speechover.com
 
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