Hello!
i have had this issue with my m-audio card and audacity.
I really had no idea of what it could be.
A/nders.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Skarstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 9:36 AM
Subject: Audacity weirdness!


> Hi folks. I'd like to think I'm pretty good with solving a lot of
> audio-related problems, but this one's got me completely
> stumped.    This is going to sound completely nuts, but trust me,
> this is exactly what's happening, and I'd even be willing to send
> someone an audio file to proove it.  Sometime  yesterday, I heard
> about Audacity, which is a pretty popular sound editor So being the
> somewhat brave sowl I am, I downloaded and installed it and all went
> very well, absolutely no problems.  Then, when the program launched,
> that's when the weirdness comes into play.  I am currently using JAWS
> 8 with an earlier version of the dec-talk access 32 software speech,
> and 99.9 percent of the time it sounds absolutely beautiful.  But
> when I launch audacity to look around and have a play with it,  there
> is a slight change to the speech, and it sounds as if it is running
> slightly slower, as if the voice is on a tape and is running a little
> low on batteries.
>  I have never heard of this happening, so I figured maybe it was
> just my imagination.  So I switched to another software synthesizer,
> namely eloquence and the effect was the same.  Closing audacity had
> no effect on it, and the only way to really make the speech return to
> normal was to shut down, and restart JAWS. I switched over to my
> dec-talk express hardware synth sso I could have a further look and I
> wanted to see if it was some kind of weird sound card issue or
> something.  By default, the program is routed to the Microsoft sound
> mmapper for both playing and recording, so I changed the program so
> that it found my card, which is an SB audigy 2, or SB audigy audio
> ff80, as it says in the options for most programs.  So then I closed
> down audacity in JAWS and I got the speech to sound normal
> again.  then, I launched audacity again, same deal, the speech
> sounded slightly slower. W to the t to the f?  So I'm stumped as to
> why this is happening, and I've run out of ideas.  The only other
> idea I have is that Audacity might be a memory hog and is taking up a
> lot of power which could cause weird stuff to happen, so I'm
> wwondering if that could be it?  I'd like to find out what's
> happening so I can start using the program a little more. I heard a
> demonstration that was given about it so i was hoping to give it a
> go, but I'd like to solve this issue first.  So, any ideas would be 
> great!!!
> Thanks folks.
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