moderated Screen readers, my sound card, and a bunch of frustration
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Phillip Gross
Okay so I can’t claim this is just a jaws issue because it seems to be both a jaws and NVDA issue since they’re both installed and both provide similar results.
My computer is only a few months old, replacing another just like still under warranty that crashed, which was bought in early 2018 when it was new. It is a Surface Book Pro, running windows 10 pro, 8 gigs of ram, I don’t remember what sound card off the top of my head.
I have a set of Bose Comfort Bluetooth headphones which can either be plugged in or used Bluetooth but plugged in makes them sound a little better and lengthens the battery time on them. When I have them plugged after an hour or so my screen reader will quit speaking. I unplug them and my computer begins speaking through the speakers. I plug them back in and it’s like the computer doesn’t realize that they are there and continues speaking through the laptop speakers. I have ruled out the headphones being the issue by trying to plug another pair in. At this point I am either stuck moving to Bluetooth or restarting the computer to get it to speak through the headphones.
My guess is that it’s probably a hardware issue but has anyone ever experienced this with a screen reader and if so what was your solution?
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Chris
If its happening after a set period of time it could well be a power management issue
From: Phillip Gross
Sent: 26 October 2019 08:05 To: jfw@groups.io Subject: Screen readers, my sound card, and a bunch of frustration
Okay so I can’t claim this is just a jaws issue because it seems to be both a jaws and NVDA issue since they’re both installed and both provide similar results.
My computer is only a few months old, replacing another just like still under warranty that crashed, which was bought in early 2018 when it was new. It is a Surface Book Pro, running windows 10 pro, 8 gigs of ram, I don’t remember what sound card off the top of my head.
I have a set of Bose Comfort Bluetooth headphones which can either be plugged in or used Bluetooth but plugged in makes them sound a little better and lengthens the battery time on them. When I have them plugged after an hour or so my screen reader will quit speaking. I unplug them and my computer begins speaking through the speakers. I plug them back in and it’s like the computer doesn’t realize that they are there and continues speaking through the laptop speakers. I have ruled out the headphones being the issue by trying to plug another pair in. At this point I am either stuck moving to Bluetooth or restarting the computer to get it to speak through the headphones.
My guess is that it’s probably a hardware issue but has anyone ever experienced this with a screen reader and if so what was your solution?
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Chris Hill
First thing to do is see if there is a driver update for the sound chip. If there is not, then you're probably just out of luck. I suppose it could be the sound system itself failing, but good luck getting the manufacturer to admit it.
On 10/25/2019 15:45, Phillip Gross
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Glenn / Lenny
Hi,
I use Windows 7, but I'm sure there is a similar
way to do this in Windows 10.
But when you plug something in, you should get a
dialog that says what did you just plug in, and you get to select whether it is
headphones, speakers or a microphone.
Usually there is a checkbox that you can check to
not ask this in the future.
I think you need to change that back to the
default, so you get that dialog when you plug it in.
It's a windows action that you need to change to
the default action, which is to ask you when you plug it in.
Or if you did not check that box, maybe that dialog
is there, and you need to alt + tab to it when you plug something
in.
I don't know which item it lands on in Windows 10,
when that dialog pops up, but if you know how many arrows to your desired
option, you may be able to do that too, but you should have speech for
this.
Glenn
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Randy Barnett <blindmansbluff09@...>
Go to power management and change your settings to high-performance. You'll probably have to check the Seymour power management plans and then select high-performance from there.
Randy Barnett owner of soundtique On Oct 26, 2019, at 12:05 AM, Phillip Gross <phillip_gross@...> wrote:
Okay so I can’t claim this is just a jaws issue because it seems to be both a jaws and NVDA issue since they’re both installed and both provide similar results.
My computer is only a few months old, replacing another just like still under warranty that crashed, which was bought in early 2018 when it was new. It is a Surface Book Pro, running windows 10 pro, 8 gigs of ram, I don’t remember what sound card off the top of my head.
I have a set of Bose Comfort Bluetooth headphones which can either be plugged in or used Bluetooth but plugged in makes them sound a little better and lengthens the battery time on them. When I have them plugged after an hour or so my screen reader will quit speaking. I unplug them and my computer begins speaking through the speakers. I plug them back in and it’s like the computer doesn’t realize that they are there and continues speaking through the laptop speakers. I have ruled out the headphones being the issue by trying to plug another pair in. At this point I am either stuck moving to Bluetooth or restarting the computer to get it to speak through the headphones.
My guess is that it’s probably a hardware issue but has anyone ever experienced this with a screen reader and if so what was your solution?
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Randy Barnett <blindmansbluff09@...>
This is just the first step to troubleshoot the problem if the issue goes away after this you'll definitely know it's up in our management issue
Randy Barnett owner of soundtique On Oct 26, 2019, at 12:05 AM, Phillip Gross <phillip_gross@...> wrote:
Okay so I can’t claim this is just a jaws issue because it seems to be both a jaws and NVDA issue since they’re both installed and both provide similar results.
My computer is only a few months old, replacing another just like still under warranty that crashed, which was bought in early 2018 when it was new. It is a Surface Book Pro, running windows 10 pro, 8 gigs of ram, I don’t remember what sound card off the top of my head.
I have a set of Bose Comfort Bluetooth headphones which can either be plugged in or used Bluetooth but plugged in makes them sound a little better and lengthens the battery time on them. When I have them plugged after an hour or so my screen reader will quit speaking. I unplug them and my computer begins speaking through the speakers. I plug them back in and it’s like the computer doesn’t realize that they are there and continues speaking through the laptop speakers. I have ruled out the headphones being the issue by trying to plug another pair in. At this point I am either stuck moving to Bluetooth or restarting the computer to get it to speak through the headphones.
My guess is that it’s probably a hardware issue but has anyone ever experienced this with a screen reader and if so what was your solution?
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Phillip Gross
Chris I see what you’re saying but I don’t have my screen set to turn off for 15 minutes on battery and even longer on power. This will happen in the middle of me typing a document or doing a web search. In other words it happens while I am active.
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Tanguy LOHEAC
Hi With Jaws you can enforce the output channel by opening the
Utility menu, then Sound card sub-menu. When your headphone is
plugged in, you may find it inthere. Select it and you may hear
Jaws back through headphone. Le 25/10/2019 à 22:45, Phillip Gross a
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