With a microphone, speakers, and a sound card, you can record your presentation and capture your voice narration, slide timings, and laser pointer gestures.

Near the upper right corner of the PowerPoint window, select Record. When you're ready, select the round, red Record button, wait for the countdown, then start speaking.

You can add audio, such as music, narration, or sound bites, to your PowerPoint presentation. When adding audio, you can also specify when the audio should start and how long it should run.

PowerPoint doesn't record audio or video during transitions between slides, so be sure not to narrate while advancing the slide. There's also a brief buffer of silence at the beginning and the end of each …

Let PowerPoint display your spoken words on-screen as you present with live captions, and even translate your words into another language with live subtitles.

Learn how to add a voice-over to your Clipchamp video through one of several methods that are available.

Dictation lets you use speech-to-text to author content in Office with a microphone and reliable internet connection. It's a quick and easy way to add content into presentation placeholders and slide notes.

You can add captions to presentations that you've recorded with video narration, screen recordings, and any other video (except online videos) that you insert into PowerPoint.

Add speaker notes to each slide to help you remember what you're going to say when you present.

Use a screen reader and keyboard shortcuts to add closed captions to a recorded presentation or a video in PowerPoint.