How to Add Audio & Background Music to Screen Recording

On no! Accidentally recorded a video on screen recording but forgot to turn on the mic audio!

Now you're asking "how to add audio track to screen recording". This problem can be stressful for most people who are new to video creation! That is why we're writing this blog.

Keep reading to learn how to add an audio track or background music to your screen recording.

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How to Add Sound to Your Screen Recording after Recording

Although many screen recorders allow you to record a video with audio, in many cases, you need to add sound to your screen recording, whether it's a new audio track for narration or background music to set the tone of your video.

A lots of video editors can help you add an audio track to a video. When you need to add audio or background music to a video or screen recording, you can give the all-featured online video editor, FlexClip, a try.

With FlexClip, you can upload your own audio track or music file, use the music or sound effect in its Music library, and even record the voice-over for your screen recording directly. What's the best, it offers an advanced text to speech tool that can help you make an AI voiceover to narrate the recorded video without recording and adding a separate audio track.

By the way, besides adding or replacing the audio in your screen recording, you can also use its powerful editing tools to level up your video, such as cut, merge, crop, rotate, add transitions, boost volume, add watermark, enhance quality, etc.

Let's walk through the simple tutorials on adding sound to screen recording, including generating sound automatically using text to speech tool, recording the voiceover narration, and adding a new audio track or background music.

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How to Use Text to Speech to Generate AI Voice to Your Screen Recording

Need engaging voiceovers or sound track for your screen recording but don't want to spend time to record a separate audio track again? You can rely on FlexClip's text to speech tool to generate a realistic and human-sounding AI voice for your screen recording in simple steps as below.

Step 1

Access FlexClip and upload your screen recording from your PC, mobile, Google Drive, One Drive, Dropbox, etc., and apply it to the Timeline. You may trim or split the clip when needed.

Generate AI Voice to Your Screen Recording - Upload

Step 2

Find the AI text to speech tool, and start making a ai voice for your screen recording: select the language, pick the voice you desired, and set the voice style, adjust the voice speed and pitch to customize a voice you like.

Generate AI Voice to Your Screen Recording - Setting

Step 3

Once done, type in or paste your screen recording script to start converting the text to speech, then preview AI-generated voice, if you're satisfied, just hit the Save to Media button to add the auto file to your media library, here the system will automatically download the voice file in MP3 format on your computer for future use and backup.

Generate AI Voice to Your Screen Recording - Convert

Step 4

Now, you can add the ai generated voiceover to your screen recording. Go to the Media, click the plus icon to add realistic AI voices to match your screen recording video, here you can adjust the audio narration's volume or trim or split the audio or even apply a fade in/out effect.

Generate AI Voice to Your Screen Recording - Sync

How to Record Voiceover Narration to Your Screen Recording

FlexClip also provides an easy way to record your voiceover for the screen recording. You can explain the screen recording at your own pace and make your video full of personality, and also help the audiences understand your content well.

Step 1

Go to the FlexClip editor page, then hit the "Media" icon to upload your screen recording video, and apply it to the Timeline.

Record Voiceover Narration to Your Screen Recording - Upload

Step 2

Go to the Volume icon on the top-left of the canvas to mute the original sound in your screen recording, if necessary.

Step 3

Make sure your microphone works well, and find the Record Voice icon located on the right bottom of the canva, then hit and hold it to begin recording voiceover narration for your screen recording.

Record Voiceover Narration to Your Screen Recording - Record

Step 4

Stop where you like, and then you can change the audio volume, or if you're not satisfied with the narration, you can remove it and try again.

Record Voiceover Narration to Your Screen Recording - Edit

How to Add New Audio Track or BGM to Your Screen Recording

Besides adding voiceover narration, you can also upload a new audio track or music file to your screen recording at FlexClip.

Step 1

Also, drag and drop your screen recording video to the Media section and apply it to the timeline first.

Step 2

Click the Add Audio below the Timeline to upload your audio files from your computer, or you can pick one from FlexClip's music library. You can add as many audio tracks as you like.

Add Music to Your Screen Recording - Add

Step 3

Once added, you can trim it and adjust the position where the music starts and ends, and apply the fade-in/out effect to make the music match your screen recording video perfectly.

Add Music to Your Screen Recording - Edit

While you're in FlexClip video editor, you can make more edits to level up your screen recording video:

• Add & edit text animation to the video;
• Add facecam to the screen recording;
• Adjust video speed, add overlays, and more.

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Years of professional photographing experience. Very much into recording every detail of life. Sandy is passionate about all things related to video production, and loves to exploring tips and tricks about it.