I have the Bose companion 2 speakers, and they do plug in to the headphone jack of my Macbook air. When I'm in Vo Utility I only have two devices. On May 27, 2014, at 10:34 PM, Tristan <theblinddj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex, > > I just tested this with my MacBook Air, with both a set of earpods and bose > speakers and the VO utility only displayed "system output" or "built-in > output." Both seemed to routte to the headset or speakers, unfortunately. > I don't know if there's a work around, but that's what I experienced. > > Tristan > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] > On Behalf Of Alex Hall > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 11:28 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: changing the speakers that voiceover uses? > > I think you can, though I have a Mac Mini and not a Macbook so may be wrong. > Either way, open up the VO utility and select Sound. Go to the "output > device" popup button and choose the device you want to use. The default will > be "system output", which means that VO will use whatever device the Mac is > set to use in System Preferences. The menu will also contain all sound output > devices, and you should see something like "headphones" and "internal audio" > or "internal speakers". Choose the latter and VO will go through your > internal speakers instead of whatever is connected to your headphones. Again, > I don't have a Macbook right here to try this on, so I might be completely > wrong. > On May 27, 2014, at 9:15 PM, Matt Dierckens <matt.dierck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Since you plugged them in to the headphone port, no you can't achieve this. > If they were USB or nbluetooth, then you can. > > Matt Dierckens > Macintosh Trainer > Blind Access Training > www.blindaccesstraining.com > 1-877-774-7670 ext. 4 > > > > > On May 27, 2014, at 9:13 PM, Justin Mann <w9...@me.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I've just gotten a pair of Bose speakers that I'm connecting to the headphone > port of my laptop. I'd like to have voiceover continue to play through my > laptop speakers, and other sound like audio from the web, and computer audio > play through these external speakers. Is that possible? > Thanks > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email tomacvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visithttps://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email tomacvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visithttps://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > mehg...@icloud.com > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email tomacvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
