Narrate a deck once and send it, instead of presenting the same slides to five different calendars.
Open REQO in Chrome or Edge and press record. Nothing to install, no extension to approve, and no admin rights to ask IT for.
Record the whole screen instead if half the presentation is a switch to a browser tab or a live dashboard, because a screen recording follows you there and slide-native narration does not.
The recording opens in the editor the moment you stop. Trim the joining-and-waiting at the front, delete a sentence by deleting it from the transcript, add captions, then download it or send a link.
PowerPoint has its own narration recording, Google Slides does not, and Keynote has a third approach with its own export quirks. Recording the screen sidesteps all of it: put the deck into presentation mode and record the window, and the result is the same whichever tool made the slides.
It also captures the things that live outside the deck. If half the presentation is a switch to a browser tab or a live dashboard, a screen recording follows you there, which slide-native narration cannot.
The case for recording is the same as for a demo: the audience watches when they can, the person who was double-booked still sees it, and you present once rather than four times.
Trim the pause while you found the right window, cut the sentence you restarted, add captions, and share a link. If someone only needs one section, clip it and send that instead of a timestamp.
A narrated deck is often the artefact itself: a board update, a project handover, a conference talk submitted in advance. In those cases the recording has to stand alone, which mostly means not relying on anything said in a Q&A that will not exist.
Record it in the aspect the audience will watch it in. A 16:9 deck recorded full-screen is fine for a laptop and wrong for a phone, and cropping afterwards costs less than presenting it twice.
Yes. Put the deck in presentation mode, record that window with your microphone on, and your narration is on the track. It works the same for Google Slides and Keynote.
Yes. Turn the webcam on and it records as an overlay in the corner, which you can move or resize afterwards.
No. Recording is free with an account and there is no cap on how long a recording runs. Free exports carry a small REQO badge; Pro removes it.
No. The recorder runs in Chrome or Edge, so there is nothing to download and no extension to approve. That is usually the deciding factor on a work laptop you cannot install software on.
Record the whole screen rather than a single window and the recording follows you into a browser tab, a dashboard or anything else you switch to.
Free, no install, and the recording opens straight in a full editor.