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How to Do a Voiceover on Google Slides

Google Slides does not record audio; it inserts an audio file from your Drive. That makes a generated voice the natural fit.

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Step by step

How to do a voiceover on Google Slides

  1. Generate the voice in Cantari: paste your script, pick a voice, and generate a natural read in seconds, then export the audio file (MP3 on every plan, WAV on paid plans). No microphone, no retakes.

  2. Generate your narration as an MP3 or WAV (see the step above) and upload it to Google Drive.

  3. In Slides, open the slide, then Insert, then Audio, and pick the file from your Drive.

  4. Click the speaker icon, open Format options, and set Start playing to Automatically, with Hide icon when presenting if you like.

Google Slides only inserts audio that already lives in your Google Drive, and it has no recording feature at all. So a generated voice file is not a workaround here, it is the intended path: make it in Cantari, drop it in Drive, insert it.

Straight answers

Voiceover on Google Slides, answered.

Can Google Slides record a voiceover directly?
No. Slides can only insert an existing audio file from your Google Drive. You create the audio elsewhere, which is why a generated voice file fits so cleanly.
What format should I upload?
MP3 or WAV. Upload it to Drive first, then Insert, then Audio finds it there.
Will the audio play when I share or present the deck?
Yes, as long as the audio file in Drive is shared with the same people who can view the deck. Set the file's sharing to match.
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The voice itself comes from text to speech. New to it? Read the guide.

Your Google Slides voiceover starts with the voice.

Generate a natural read from your script in seconds, export it, and add it the way this guide shows. No microphone required.

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