Slide Audio, Presentation Audio and Sound Effects

Enhance your presentations on AhaSlides with slide or presentation-level audio, along with sound effects for greater control over the experience.

Note:

Slide and Presentation Audio are available only on paid plans.

Sound effects are available on all plans.

Audio

How Audio Works

On AhaSlides, you can set audio to play on each slide as you present (Slide Audio) or throughout the entire presentation (Presentation Audio).

It is possible to enable Slide Audio to play on participants' devices, but not for Presentation Audio; the audio will simply autoplay on the presenter's device for the duration of the presentation.

While you present, you will find the controls in the top-left corner of the slide when any audio is playing. If you hover over the Musical note icon, you will be able to:

1. Turn off the audio by clicking the icon
   
2. See the control bar and use it to pause, play, or adjust the audio volume.
   

Special case: The Lobby screen for quiz (as shown in the image below) will always have its own music. It can only be turned off by clicking the Musical note icon

It is possible to have both Presentation Audio and Slide Audio set up in your presentation. In this case, the Slide Audio will take priority over the Presentation Audio when you present that slide, but any slides without Slide Audio will revert to playing the Presentation Audio.

Please note that it is not possible to set up audio on the Spinner Wheel, YouTube slide, and QR Code slide.

How to Set Up Slide Audio

1. Select the slide on which you would like to play the audio and click the Audio section on the right side of the editing screen.

2. Under the Slide tab, either click the dropdown menu to select a song from the AhaSlides audio library or press the Upload button to embed your own audio (mp3 format only with a maximum file size of 15mb).

3. Once you have selected a slide audio track or uploaded your own, you will see checkboxes for the audio settings.

1. Autoplay - Check this box to have audio play immediately once you arrive at the slide in the presentation.
   
2. On repeat - Check this box to have the audio automatically play again once it finishes.
   
3. Playable on audience's devices - Check this box to have audio play through the audience devices as well as the presenter's. If you check this, another checkbox labeled Show media controls will appear. Checking this will allow the audience to play, pause, and adjust the audio volume on their own devices.
   

Please note that some devices may prevent audio tracks from automatically playing. In that case, the participant will see a prompt to press the play button.

How to Set Up Presentation Audio

1. Select any slide in your presentation and click the Audio section on the right side of the editing screen.
   
2. Under the Presentation tab, select a song from the dropdown menu.
   

At the moment, it is not yet possible to upload your own audio file as Presentation Audio.

Presentation Audio will not play on slides that already have Slide Audio

Sound effects

How Sound effects work

Sound effects can play on both the presenter’s and participants’ sides, depending on the interaction.

On the presenter’s screen, sound effects help guide the flow of the presentation:

• Micro-interactions: button clicks, answer reveals
• Transitions: moving to the next slide, QR code appearing, submissions closing
• High-impact moments: countdowns, drumrolls, leaderboard reveals
• Atmosphere: background music as participants join, from start to finish

On the participants’ devices, sound effects provide feedback during interactions:

• When submitting answers on quiz slides
• Result notifications, including:
  • Correct or incorrect answers
  • Time’s up
  • Answer streaks

How to enable/disable Sound effect

1. Select any slide in your presentation and click the Audio section on the right side of the editing screen.

2. Under the Presentation tab, click on the toggles under Sound effects, next to On the presenting screen, or On participants' devices to enable/disable them.

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