Thanks Sarah, that helps. Catherine
On 10/19/13, Sarah k Alawami <marri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok. to get your outputs so that vo will speak even when you have it set > differently, go to the vo utilities and set under sound, cmd 6, the input to > your internal speakers, not default input. This way you can switch outputs > and have vo tell you which one. As for your headset problem I don't know as > all of mine are hard wired. > > Take care. > On Oct 19, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Catherine Turner > <catherineturner2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Can anyone give me any hints about using a headset with my Mac? I >> have one which I can get working sometimes and not oner times. It's a >> Logitech H800 headset. It's meant to have both bluetooth and wireless >> which I thin complicates matters. >> >> The headset has three positions in the "device selecter switch" which >> I believe are off, bluetooth and wireless. Although it's hard to tell >> because sometimes when the audio has come through, I switch to the off >> position and the audio carries on coming no matter which position I pt >> the switch to. >> >> So I put the dongle in and switch the headset to what I believe is the >> wireless position. No sound comes through. I go to sound in system >> preferences and to the output tab, and here I am stumped because it >> seems impossible to just look through the available options with VO >> without actually picking one. So it starts set on internal speakers >> and there are 5 rows in the table but as soon as I start moving down >> the table VO goes silent, presumably because the sound is trying to >> output to a device which isn't connected/working. >> >> I have had this headset working a few times and I just can't fathom >> any pattern involving which switch I select, whether I put the dongle >> in first or last, whether I try to connect via the headset name in men >> extras/bluetooth or go to system preferences. It's possible the >> headset is faulty but this would seem odd as it has worked a few times >> and is quite new. >> >> Has anyone got any ideas? Is there any way of exploring those options >> in sound output under system preferences without actually activating >> them? And failing all that, has anyone got any recommendations of >> headsets which work properly for a baffled person like me? >> >> Thanks, >> Catherine >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >> >> To reply to this post, please address your message to >> mac-access@mac-access.net >> >> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum >> at either the list's own dedicated web archive: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> or at the public Mail Archive: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. >> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> >> >> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure >> that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and >> worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security >> strategy. 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