Several years ago, I purchased a Turtle Beach USB sound device (to call it a
card hardly seems appropriate -- it looks much like a flash memory stick)
and have no regrets. It does have some limitations such as not producing a
broad range of volume and tone differentiation such as one might configure
for upper case voicing and spelling mode differentiation, but if your
intention is to use this "secondary sound card" for your JAWS output it is
quite adequate and not very expensive. This will give you the ability to
control the "normal sound" differently from your JAWS speech output and I do
believe you will be quite satisfied.
Also, this was something I was experimenting with when my beloved died; my
intention was to deploy the Turtle Beach USB Sound device for JAWS with a
set of earphones and install Naturally Speaking as a voice recognition using
the native sound card to handle that application. My thought was that the
two separate sound devices would, as a result of being deployed for the two
differing purposes, allow JAWS and Naturally Speaking to "play nice" with
each other. I realize this last thought is somewhat off the topic of this
thread, but I thought it may be a useful thought to throw out there since I
never pursued any further after Carol's death.
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To You & Yours: A Very Merry Christmas & Happy New Year !!!
Holland & Bill
- "`There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I
have not profited, I dare say,' returned the nephew. `Christmas among the
rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has
come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin,
if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time; a
kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the
long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open
their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they
really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of
creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never
put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me
good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!'"
- "A Christmas Carol," 1843, Charles Dickens
-----Original Message-----
From: Shari
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 1:19 PM
To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com
Subject: [Blind-Computing] Adding a second sound card
Hi All,
I'm using Jaws 13 and Vista on a laptop. Right now I have only the internal
sound card. I want to add an external sound card. I went to Amazon, thinking
this would just be a simple purchase, but of course, there are tons of
choices, and I have no clue what I need. I was initially looking for a USB
external card. Then I also saw there are cards that connect to speakers, and
then several items called "adaptors" showed up in the results list, too.
Actually, there were only a couple options for USB sound cards amidst the
long list, and customer ratings weren't all that good. I don't need anything
with lots of bells and whistles, and I don't care where I order from. I just
went to Amazon because I thought I could make a quick purchase and be done.
I simply want to be able to have Jaws coming from a sound card separate from
music or sporting events so I can control the volumes separately. Any
pointers on how to make a selection would be a big help.
Thank you,
Shari
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