If you tell Windows to use the external sound card in its settings for both
playback and recording it will always use the external sound card for you
for your media. You must tell your screen reader to use the other / internal
sound card in its settings. For JAWS you can do insert j then u then
My suggestion is to choose your sound card for music and high quality
audio and select it as your primary sound card. then direct JAWS to
only use the other sound card. I have found no need to then configure
multiple players such as Winamp, windows Media, and Quicktimes along
with itunes. I did
I know with WMP 'Windows media Player' you can direct it to your external
sound card if needed. Do alt+t fot tools within WM Player choose options.
Find the Devices tab. Then tab to a list. For me a first hear my DVD drive
but this is not it from the list but arrow down to the speakers option.
I use my internal sound card for the screen reader and the external USB
sound card for my media.
- Original Message -
From: "Dennis"
To: "PC Audio Discussion List"
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: Sound card question
in winamp... control p for preferences. arrow to
in winamp... control p for preferences. arrow to output and tab over to
the list of pluggins. now tab again to configure. press enter and your
on the list of soundcards to choose from. just press enter on the one
you want to use. when you want to change it back just repete the above.
the easies
In addition to the integrated sound card which came with my Windows 7
PC, I also have an external USB sound card so that the screen reader
output can be separated from the output of other audio devices. Please
tell me which audio players allow the user to direct the output to a
specific sound
