Pause control in narration

• You can now add natural pauses inside a slide's narration using parentheses, right in your Speaker Notes:
  • () inserts a short beat (about 0.35 seconds). Stack them for a longer pause — ()() is about 0.7 seconds.
  • (2s), (1.5s), or (500ms) insert an exact pause of that length.
  • Plain numbers or words such as (2) or (note) are still read out normally, so your existing scripts are unaffected.
• Pauses are included in each slide's video automatically — the slide's duration adjusts to fit the added silence.
• New on-screen tips: the parentheses-pause and per-slide timing hints now appear in the Setup Status dialog and in the ribbon button tooltips.

Microsoft Neural Voices

• Added support for Microsoft's neural voices — including Mark, Zira, and David, plus the Japanese voices Ayumi, Haruka, and Ichiro — alongside the classic system voices.
• Each voice is now labelled (Neural) or (SAPI) in the voice list, so you can tell the higher-quality voices apart at a glance.
• The Setup Status dialog now reports how many neural and system voices are available on your PC.

The first release

• Turn any PowerPoint into a narrated MP4 video straight from your Speaker Notes — fully offline, on your own PC.
• Per-slide voice, speaking rate, and timing controls.