Hi, I purchased an Arctic 5 gaming headset. This headset has a USB interface and has two sound cards built-in. So, there is a volume control on the cable which allows you to control the volume of the two sound cards separately. You can set up the sound sources on the Mac so that you have VoiceOver on one sound card and Zoom on the other. This way, using the single volume control, you can turn either sound source up or down as needed. This is not panning as both sound from Zoom and Voice Over come through both speakers but the ability to grab the volume control and turn up or down either source instantaneously makes for a much more pleasant Zoom and VoiceOver experience.
I learned about this headset from a podcast that David Woodbridge did about it. Robert Carter > On Jul 9, 2020, at 2:35 PM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries > <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Hello All: > > Like many of you I spend a lot of time each week in Zoom meetings. > > I find there are many ways by which Zoom notifications read aloud by Voice > Over > enhance the experience. I very much appreciate knowing who just entered > the meeting, and who just left. This is only one example. > > But there's clearly also the problem of Voice Over obscuring what is > being said in the teleconference itself. Unfortunately, both speack at > exactly the same locus of a stereo field, because there's no facility to > pan these sound emmiters to different locations even though most of us > are likely stereo capable in our hardware. > > I believe the situation could be enhanced greatly if we had the ability to > adjust the pan position of Voice Over speech. If the sound coming > from the meeting were in one location in the stereo field, while Voice Over > speech were in a different pan location; we would have a greater possibility > to pay > attention to the one and ignore the other. Some of us would likely even > learn to comprehend both just as sighted people often comprehend > unrelated simoultaneous events in their visual field. > > What do you think? Is this something we should request of Apple? I > suspect it would be relatively easy to implement. > > Best, > > Janina > > -- > > Janina Sajka > https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka > > Linux Foundation Fellow > Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org > > The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) > Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.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 to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/20200709193543.GE2033%40rednote.net. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.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 to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/CA3BF316-5B6B-47BF-9EAD-44385F688F8A%40gmail.com.
