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Is there any way to batch import audio files in Storyline?
Hi David! Thank you for your response!
With the Presenter Import Audio feature we are able to ctrl A all the slides in Import Audio > ctrl A all our audio files that are numbered according to the slide > click open > click OK > and all our audio files are aligned to the correct slide in a matter of minutes. Versus if we just imported audio into PowerPoint we'd still have to click about 6 times to get one audio file into a slide.
I tried dragging and dropping the audio file to the Storyline slide from my desktop (Dell) and couldn't get it to work but I'll try again.
Is the Presenter import audio batch feature being considered for Storyline at all? We have a lot of requests for non-AI voices and it would save a lot of time.
Hi LorenHallmark-b,
Happy to chime in here! It’s really helpful to see how you’re using the Presenter workflow. I can see why having audio automatically line up with slides would make such a big difference, especially with larger projects and human voiceovers.
Right now in Storyline, you can bring in multiple audio files through the Media Library or import a PowerPoint with audio already added, but there isn’t a way to automatically match a batch of audio files to slides in one go like Presenter does.
I’ll share this with our product team so they can see how this would help streamline your workflow. Thanks for taking the time to lay it out so clearly.
Hi Eric,
Thanks for your response! I was able to get the drag‑and‑drop workflow to work, and it definitely reduces the amount of clicking. That said, importing all audio files into the media library still ends up being roughly the same number of clicks as navigating to "Audio from File".
Our biggest challenge with narration is that we’re required to provide an exported set of all audio files, labeled by slide number. When we created TTS directly in Storyline, we had to export each MP3 one at a time, manually name it by the corresponding slide number, and save it locally—which was extremely time‑consuming.
We recently purchased an AI TTS tool that batch‑exports audio based on the script in the Notes section of a PowerPoint, with files already labeled to each slide. That’s where we’re seeing significant time savings, especially when batch‑importing those files into Presenter.
If Articulate AI offered a way to batch export audio files with filenames that include the slide number, it would be a game‑changer for our team. Currently, exporting all audio from Storyline doesn’t preserve that context, so we’d have to listen to each file to determine which slide it belongs to.
I wanted to share more detail about our workflow and what would solve a major time sink for us. A true batch import and/or export option for audio—especially with slide‑based labeling—seems like it would benefit many teams who’ve raised this request in this thread.
