Re: 1.1.0.8 Voice Comm- WTF is going on with this thing?

[Marcelo ''Mosca'' de Paula Bezerra]

Sound recorder does not record and play at the same time.
Yes there are lots of cards that can't do it.
But the voice setup app really sux. :)
I can't even understand any word I say to it and I use a SB Live! and
the mic that came with it.

Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>
> Why is it that even with the mobo integrated AC97 sound I have, and the
> cheap labtec boom mic, that w2k's inbuilt sound recorder app can record and
> play back my voice nicely, considering the quality of my components, yet the
> Sierra Voice Setup app...I can't even describe it really.
>
> 1.  There is a constant humming noise, that sounds like a combination of
> space noise, and a horribly tuned airplane piston engine revving up and down
> and up and down.  This is just by firing up the app.
> 2.  When I speak into it, you can't decipher what comes back.
> 3.  The syllables I speak into the mic get played back, but are doubled in
> time length, if not more...just drawn out like they're played back at 1/2 or
> 1/3 speed or something....
>
> what gives?  Windows sound recorder does fine, although "static-y", but
> easily understandable.
>
> This Sierra Voice Setup thing isn't recording and playing back the same
> stuff that windows sound recorder is...wtf!
>
> Any ideas here?  Please help Valve.
>
> BTW, what reference hardware, and what window interface did you hook to?
> God I'm baffled and ticked.  Why can an el cheapo OS sound recorder do
> 100000 times better than your interface to the sound system?
>
> StanTheMan
> TheHardwareFreak
> www.hardwarefreak.devastation.cc
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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