[audacity4blind] Re: Using audacity with USB Headset

  • From: Brad Erhardt <bookmanbrad@xxxxxxx>
  • To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 11:59:06 -0700

Hi  Gale, Thank you very much, this explains a lot!

On 2011-11-02, at 11:41 AM, Gale Andrews wrote:

> 
> | From Brad Erhardt <bookmanbrad@xxxxxxx> 
> | Wed, 2 Nov 2011 08:44:30 -0700
> | Subject: [audacity4blind] Using audacity with USB Headset 
>> Hello all, I wonder if anyone knows how you can set up audacity to toggle
>> output to a USB headset. I currently have one connected, and in the sounds 
>> panel of system preferences I have it selected as output. I am hearing the
>> VoiceOver through it, but when I am in audacity and play a file, it is coming
>> through the output of the built in speakers. I know there is a popup button 
>> in
>> preferences for audacity about output but this would be a more permenant 
>> type of change. I am wanting to change this on the fly. 
> 
> You can use SHIFT + O to open the "Select Output Device" dialogue for 
> Device Toolbar: 
> http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Keyboard_Shortcut_Reference
> 
> You cannot allocate shortcuts to a particular device. 
> 
> 
>> Secondly, I understand that in the tooldoc there is a Meeter section but I 
>> can't
>> seem to understand that using VoiceOver. There seem to be a lot of areas 
>> that I interact with that are empty. There is also a grabber area. Can 
>> anyone 
>> help me figure out how to do this on a Mac computer. I am using Audacity 
>> 1.3.14.
> 
> Meter Toolbar is not screen reader accessible on any platforms at the 
> moment:
> http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Accessibility
> 
> To check for possible clipping, you can use Analyze > Find Clipping 
> which adds labels for any clipped regions:
> http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Analyze_Menu#Find_Clipping...
> 
> The labels are not read out in the label track, but you can have them
> read at Tracks > Edit Labels. This could cause Audacity to crash or 
> freeze if there are a lot of labels. 
> 
> It's probably better to set a fairly low input level in Mixer Toolbar and
> Amplify the recording afterwards.  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Gale 
> 
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Brad Erhardt
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