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New Video is posted on Youtube and I have it here too. Learn to make your own communication boards using Audacity, a free open source recording software, and PowerPoint. If you don’t have MS Office you can download OpenOffice Suite for free and use their version of a slide show presentation software.

Use a microphone - not the internal mic in the computer, and with Audacity, record the voice message or command and then export it from Audacity as a wav file. You can put a picture on a PowerPoint slide, right-click it and then choose action  settings. Select sound and then scroll the menu to the bottom where it says “other sound…” Browse to where you saved the wav file and choose it and open. Your sound is embedded in the image now. When you play the slide, bu clicking on the picture you have your sound.

Check out the video below to see and hear how it is done:

All the best to you!
Lon

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