Hi
I bought a cheep USB sound card off EBay for $5 plus shipping. It came
from Honkong. The sound quality wasn't great but it was acceptable. I never
could figure out how to get the sounds from the computer to go to the native
sound card while sending JAWS to the USB card. So, I stopped using the USB card.
God bless,
Mark
-- Currently in Pendleton, Eastern Oregon Regional At Pendleton, Oregon
Overcast, Light Rain 41°F Wind:WSW-250° at 7mph
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Gallik" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] external sound cards
Hi Kathy,
I bought a Turtle Beech USB "Sound Card" from buy.com about a year ago; it
only cost about $25.00. One problem I've encountered with this "Sound Card"
is that voice inflections in JAWS are not transmitted through the device.
But that's a small price to pay for the luxury of having two sound devices
on board your PC.
One other caveat that you may want to know about in advance, you need a set
of earphones to use the Turtle Beech USB sound card. Or you could plug
regular speakers into it as well I suppose. But that seems like a lot of
clutter on your desk if you already have a set of speakers hanging off the
native sound card. The nice thing about a secondary sound card is that you
can instruct JAWS (if you use JAWS that is -- of course) to transmit through
the secondary card so any applications deploying sound through the primary
card can have an acceptable volume setting and there won't be the problem of
all those sounds -- including JAWS -- overriding each other.
HTH
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