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.

On the Insert tab of the ribbon, click Audio or Video. (For complete details about inserting the media file, see Insert and play a video file from your computer or Add audio to your slides.)

Play audio, such as music, a song, or a sound automatically when a slide appears while you are presenting.

This article details which file format can be added to a PowerPoint show. Learn more about the various file formats that are supported in PowerPoint.

In PowerPoint for Windows, you can add closed captions to audio files in your presentations. Adding closed captions makes your presentation accessible to a larger audience, including people with …

Compress your PowerPoint media files to improve playback performance and save disk space.

If there's an audio or video clip in a PowerPoint file that you want to reuse elsewhere, you can do so by saving the clip as a separate media file (.mp4 or .m4a).

To avoid audio or video playback issues in PowerPoint, you can optimize media files you've inserted into your presentation for compatibility on other devices. For a list of supported file types, visit Video and …

If you need to edit a closed caption file that is inserted in a video in PowerPoint, you can first remove the file, modify it, and then add it back to the video.

If you want to separately use files or objects from a PowerPoint presentation, such as videos, photos, or sounds, you can extract them by converting the presentation to a “zipped” file folder.