Storyline is clipping off the first couple seconds of voice over recordings

Hi there Scott and Andrea: 

So, to Andrea's questions: 

• It plays normally in the original audio file in Audacity
• The problem occurs when it plays in anything Storyline - in edit mode, in preview mode, and in Review (but in Review, ONLY on my computer) (weird, I know)
• I've tried adding silence to the beginning - no dice

I'm using an AKG professional mic and Audacity, so I doubt there is an issue there (especially since I've recorded lots of V.O.s with that setup that also play normally everywhere else) (although I haven't tried importing them into Storyline to see what they would do). 

The idea of providing a throwaway phrase at the beginning is interesting, but ... this is for a narrated software demo; so each instruction/explanation to the user is separated from the previous one by two to three seconds or more, so I would have to insert "delete this" in front of each phrase/instruction/explanation and there are 10 to 20 of them on average, per demo.

I am pretty sure this did not happen before. It seems like it's a fairly recent phenom, starting some time after I started working on this course last December. I'm trying to think of what changed on my computer that might cause this. 

In the end, it truly seems to be happening only on my computer, so as long as it plays right when published, it doesn't matter. It's just ... annoying. :-) 

Thanks, all! 

Lerissa