Audio in Google Slides

[Martin Mullan]

Hi All,

Yesterday I was asked if it was possible to record audio and insert it directly into GSlides without having to save to Drive first; I was thinking there should be but I haven't seen it yet. This morning I have an email from PearDeck that does that from their Addon, so I look further to find videos and links to EdTechTeam's AudioPlayer for Slides but it doesn't seem to exist in the marketplace: am I being blind?

Are there any other options out there at the moment?

Mr Hawksey, I know you have done work with recording to Drive, have you seen, or done anything, that works to GSlides directly?

Cheers, Mart.

[Martin Hawksey]

Hi Martin,

Looks like AudioPlayer has been discontinued and now they are just recommend the built-in player https://edtechawesomeness.com/2018/09/17/edtech-teams-audioplayer-for-slides/

In terms of a workflow I'm not aware of an insertAudio method being available in the Slides API yet, but this is a new feature so it might come soon. A suggested workaround is to convert the audio file to .mp4 and insert video https://stackoverflow.com/a/61239588/1027723 

VideoJS has been recommended to me as a reliable cross platform solution https://github.com/collab-project/videojs-record. The workflow would be something like a sidebar add-on that lets someone record the audio (client side), dump the output to Google Drive as a video file and then make the API to insert it into the slide. As you would be inserting as video you'd need to scale the video playback embed so it's big enough for user control or you might be able to config auto play.

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[Martin Mullan]

Thanks Martin,

It's a shame EdTechTeam discontinued it; it did exactly what I was asked for!

Cheers. Mart.

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[Abela James]

Hi Martin,

Peardeck just released this feature and it is an add-on to Google Slides. https://www.peardeck.com/pear-deck-blog/2020/add-audio?utm_campaign=Weekly%20Blog%20Posts&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-97i8uTB5ynh3C-p2_cixleNoqb7TpXyU35NH-C4Qfjzc4ft6OldvwiGOLu43h3nnkiXXTqc3u7wSUemQQ1DmWRvOXwVEnNbT6M_x6JvanBo2nwtKY&_hsmi=87152801&utm_source=hs_email&utm_content=87152801&hsCtaTracking=e8dba038-e0ca-405b-bc52-bb08d59a036b%7C4b4ef8e4-b372-4338-befd-e5029e020d8b

Best wishes

James 

[Martin Mullan]

Hey James,

It was PearDeck's release that made me look closer at this.

I believe PearDeck saves the audio file to their server; it doesn't get stored on my drive. I can download it to my laptop, but that isn't a step forward from other solutions.

Some of our teachers use Voice Mote https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mote-voice-commenting-for/ajphlblkfpppdpkgokiejbjfohfohhmk but the students need it too...again, using VoiceMote's servers?

I still haven't found anything as simple and effective as what EdTechTeam did. I have messaged them on Twitter!

Mart.

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[Martin Mullan]

Just thinking,

Doesn't Andrew Stillman's Goobric do voice recordings to GDrive and put them into the doc? Or does that only work for the docs not the slides?

M