A presenter is essential to successfully delivering a presentation’s message, and in the absence of one, viewers shouldn’t be made to rely on just text on screen. If you’re making a video presentation for people to view independently in their own time or to host on your website, recording a narration could be the ideal solution. The study suggests that the right music accompaniment can help audiences engage with and so better understand a presentation’s message. According to researchers from the University of Groningen, the music we listen to affects our mood and may alter our visual perception. Music can be a great way to help bring your recorded presentation to life and more fully immerse your audience in your message. Hide icon when presenting is useful if your audio is playing automatically, so the audio icon doesn’t take up space on your slide. Further down, you can select Stop on slide change, to ensure the audio doesn’t repeat on loop. If you go to Audio playback and set your audio to Start playing and select Automatically, then you won’t have to click on the icon every time. If you click on the audio icon on the slide, and then go to Format options, a panel will appear on the right side of your screen, giving you a few options. Your audio is now embedded in your slide! A window will pop up where you can search for an audio file on your Drive.

To add the audio to Google Slides, open your presentation, click Insert on the menu bar, scroll down and select Audio. Google Slides supports MP3 and WAV audio formats. If you have a local copy of the audio file you want to insert on your computer, upload it to your Drive and then use the Google Drive tab to search and locate it. In this blog post, we’re going to show you how to insert audio and video into Google Slides and give you some examples where using video can enrich your presentations and increase audience engagement. An easy way to bring movement and dynamism to your slides is by adding audio or video.

Although Google Slides is an incredibly simple and intuitive tool for building presentations, its animation limitations mean that slides can lack oomph.

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