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" <billgal...@centurytel.net> To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com> 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 ---*---*---*---*---*--- Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/