Hi Mike,
I have never soldered anything in my life, if anyone would be good
enough to tell me how as a totally blind man, I would really
appreciate it. I would kill to be able to solder, even with
difficulty.
As for the connections I spoke of below, all you need is the ability
to plug the cables together. Everything is modular. Honestly, I can't
help but agree with you about plugs and sockets, part of the problem
is that with those, you understand what's happening whereas with
software, it's more difficult to be absolutely sure. Even with the
source open, it's a good deal faster to look at a bunch of cables than
to go through the code.
As for NVDA, the synthesizer dialog has a box to choose the sound
playback device. Jaws has the same. I'm not sure about the dolphin
products or Wineyes, but suspect the latter, at least, has the same
option.
Aman
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Irony is I would have done this in my sleep when I could see to solder
cables and stuff.
And the RNIB will charge you over ten quid for sneezing.
I like the idea, but not sure whether I can directly name the audio
device in the NVDA config. I have a couple of plug in USB sound
devices, so this might be possible.
I am a bit of a dinosaur in some respects, because I prefer cables and
plugs and sockets to software, or juggling several expensive devices
which would invariably be either totally inaccessible on the PC because
the person who wrote it thinks what the customer wants is bling instead
of pure function, or it would stop working exactly when the bank phones
me to tell me I've been robbed.
Give me plugs and sockets instead of VOIM (voice over magic) or
plug-and-pray.
On 21/05/2015 17:44, Aman Singer wrote:
Hi,
If I may ask, why would any sort of specialized box/splitter be
needed? It seems to me Mike can do everything quite easily as long as
he gets the sound into the PC somehow. He can assign the screen reader
to one sound card and the audio from the phone to another, then run a
3.5 MM male to RCA male splitter from each soundcard to an RCA joiner
(2 RCA female to 1 3.5 MM female). His headset would then receive one
channel from the screen reader sound card and one from the phone
soundcard. Total cost shouldn't be over £10 unless he wants to buy the
usb sound device from a local store rather than online. From the
prices I've seen through RNIB, £10 would be lower than what they would
charge.
Aman
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