In a round-about way, I think so, but it might be more trouble than it's worth. I might even be wrong about Soundflower enabling this. A quick Google search tells me that Apple disables the speakers automatically, which is annoying but at least explains why you can't use them. I'd call this an accessibility issue - sighted people can listen to music through speakers but still use their macs locally, yet VO users are forced to route audio through the external speakers and not the internal ones. Rephrase that so it makes more sense (I'm really tired and not doing a great job at phrasing things, but you get my point) and send it to Apple Accessibility. The only other option I see is Airplay speakers, which get very expensive very quickly. On May 27, 2014, at 11:53 PM, Justin Mann <w9...@me.com> wrote:
> HI all, > > Having said all of this, I've just installed SOundflower is there a way using > that I could re route the output on a Macbook air? > On May 27, 2014, at 10:36 PM, Justin Mann <w9...@me.com> wrote: > >> 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. > > > -- > 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. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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