hi about a week or two ago [give or take a bit] i wrote to the list referring to an ongoing problem that i have had for several months with
no sensible or even logical answer. the problem was as the subject box describes. that was that whenever i chat to anyone on skype they can hear jaws echoing back through the loudspeakers. i am unable to hear theirs. this brought me to thinking that something was not quite right here. so i set about the mammoth task of asking everyone i could think of for any possible solution to what was causing this to happen and how it could be rectified. amongst the people i asked was the r n i b computer volunteer chap and Wally Harding a technition in computing at the r n i b in Peterborough UK. unfortunately with all of these possible people that could shed some light on to the subject sadly no one was able to comply and fulfil my request. i went through the settings in sound manager and could find nothing untoward. i spoke to someone on skype last night and it was decided that between us we would see what the setting were for the both of us. i then discovered one of them was set at 95. much to high i am sure. so it was brought down to 50 percent. this made a huge difference although there was still some more work to do. another problem i had of which i did not mention to the list was that my speech/modulation sounded like i was underwater. nothing like the way i sounded when we first spoke to each other on skype. my learned friend was still able to hear the screen reader over the speakers but it was at a much improved audio level and was hardly hearable. a far cry on previous evenings when the screen reader was louder than me. another suggestion that my learned friend spoke about was moving the microphone from the cack of the computer and place it in the front of the tower casing. oh well nothing to lose here i suppose so with great difficulty i managed to pull the microphone jack plug out of the sound card on the back of the computer and place it at the front. there is a flap which contains 2 u s b sockets and 2 3.5 jack plug sockets. as soon as i spoke i heard the other person say much better. he said i sound just like i did when we first spoke on skype with no harmonic feedback and modulation was perfectly clear and very understandable. not quiet and not loud or over powering.and most importantly no underwater sound effects. i then proceeded to move along the screen using the screen reader and this was much better. i could do with just one more adjustment perhaps but that would only be to change microphones over to a uni directional one. so i am i would say 85 percent of the way to correcting this rather long winded and ongoing problem. but 85 percent from yesterday is much better than no percent or even minus 10 of which i was before yesterday i can live with that. so a small adjustment in sounds and audio devices and moving the microphone from the back to the front of the computer provided the solution to the mystery that no one was able to solve but many thanks to all who did suggest possible things that may help and of course apologized for conducting a biography rather than a quick answer to inform all the list that i am now back up and running thank you Yvonne For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Send any questions regarding list management to: blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com
