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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 audio quality

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Hi!
We are a team in Ericsson Sweden working with eLearnings. We are trying to record audio to slides in PowerPoint. The recording works fine but when comparing to other recording software the sound quality is very bad when recording in PowerPoint. Is there any way the quality could be improved? Any settings in PowerPoint? We tested with same microphone in different software. One example was testeing recording the voice with Articulate Voice recording in PowerPoint and compared that with the "insert" "audio" "Record audio" function. The sound quality was so much better with Articulate recording compared to PowerPoint.
If you have any idea how this could be improved we would appriciate it a lot. Getting Articulate is rather expensive and not everyone we work with can buy this software. Whay it would be great if they could use the built in solution in PowerPoint.
Thanks
Anna Pellnäs
Training Manager
Ericsson AB
Sweden- Edited by Anna Pellnas Wednesday, April 29, 2015 8:45 AM
- Moved by Fei XueMicrosoft employee Thursday, April 30, 2015 2:22 AM
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 8:32 AM
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Hi Anna Pellnäs,
As far as I know, this is a known issue in PowerPoint 2010, and more people are discussing this in this post:
We might try the workaround in that post. (Please note: It's a tutorial video)
Hope it's helpful.
Regards,
George Zhao
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office programs. Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help, and unmark the answers if they provide no help. If you have feedback for TechNet Support, contact tnmff@microsoft.com.- Edited by George123345 Friday, May 1, 2015 1:39 AM
- Proposed as answer by George123345 Tuesday, May 5, 2015 6:50 AM
- Marked as answer by George123345 Thursday, May 7, 2015 9:16 AM
Friday, May 1, 2015 1:37 AM
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Hello Anna,
The forum is for developers. I'd recommend asking non-programming questions on the Office 2013 and Office 365 ProPlus - IT Pro General Discussions forum instead.
From a developer perspective you may consider developing an add-in for PowerPoint with the required functionality (using any APIs or components for recording the audio). See Walkthrough: Creating Your First Application-Level Add-in for PowerPoint to get started quickly.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 12:17 PM -
Hi Anna Pellnäs,
As far as I know, this is a known issue in PowerPoint 2010, and more people are discussing this in this post:
We might try the workaround in that post. (Please note: It's a tutorial video)
Hope it's helpful.
Regards,
George Zhao
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office programs. Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help, and unmark the answers if they provide no help. If you have feedback for TechNet Support, contact tnmff@microsoft.com.- Edited by George123345 Friday, May 1, 2015 1:39 AM
- Proposed as answer by George123345 Tuesday, May 5, 2015 6:50 AM
- Marked as answer by George123345 Thursday, May 7, 2015 9:16 AM
Friday, May 1, 2015 1:37 AM