Hi Brian
Well, what a nasty trick to play. It is a Windows rather than an Audacity
setting and very uncivilised of them not to alert you. I don’t recall it being
an issue here, possibly because I had Audacity installed before upgrading to
Windows 1803. However, a quick check of the Audacity Forum
<https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?t=100117> suggests that the
issue could occur if Audacity was already installed. It is weird that it let
you record with Goldwave – perhaps it was installed before the update.
In any event, well done in sorting out the issue. Now you can continue the
learning curve.
Andrew
From: audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Behalf Of Brian Williams
Sent: Saturday, 18 January 2020 10:04 PM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Recording While Wearing Headphones
Hi Andrew, sorry about the delay in getting back to you but tricky little while
to solve the problem. With the help of my fully sighted son, we eventually
found a reference on the web that says some versions of audacity automatically
block the microphone on some laptops In Windows 10. As far as I can understand
it what we had to do was go into the privacy settings on the laptop, get it to
get audacity to allow the microphone,and then in audacity set Audio host to
wasapi, And a recording device to microphone. So far, so good. The next trick
will be trying to use an external microphone as the internal one is how they
say, crap. Anyway, thanks for your help so far. Watch this space.
Brian
On 16 Jan 2020, at 10:44 am, Andrew Downie <access_tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:access_tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
Hmmm, that is not optimal. When you hit r to record, does the screen reader
say, “Track 1 not selected”? If so, that is a good start. If not, I am very
puzzled.
Having launched Audacity, try this sequence and tell us what happens.
1. Press r and say something which may or may not be meaningful.
2. Press spacebar to stop the recording.
3. Press spacebar again to play the recording.
If that yields nothing, try the following:
1. Press control-shift-f6
2. Shift tab four times. That will tell you which sound card Audacity is
playing back through. If a laptop, there is almost certainly only a choice of
one, but one never knows.
3. Press shift-tab again and it will tell you the input being used to
record. That should tell you, perhaps in convoluted terms, that it is the
internal mic.
Arrowing up and down in either of those fields will allow you to change devices
and that may yield something useful.
All that said, I am surprised that Audacity did not select the relevant input
and output devices. Let us know how you get on. If no luck, I am sure the
collective brains on the list will help you work it out.
Time for bed here, so will check your progress in the morning.
Andrew
From: audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > On Behalf Of Brian Williams
Sent: Thursday, 16 January 2020 9:06 PM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Recording While Wearing Headphones
I am having the same problem. I am very new to the program. I can’t even get it
to record with the internal microphone. Even if I remove the headphones I get
the same non-existent result. The internal microphone works when I used
Goldwave. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Brian
On 16 Jan 2020, at 9:40 am, David Bailes <drbailes@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:drbailes@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
Hi Andrew, and anyone else who received a blank message,
Ella's message was:
Hey everyone, I really need some help. I have a win 10 laptop 64 bit with a
combined headphone/microphone port. Although I have no difficulty recording
without headphones plugged in, as soon as I plug in my headphones I can't
record anything. This is true if I use another app like Voice Recorder.
Basically my computer only records what's coming out of my headphones like
screen reader speech, but I can't record anything, such as my voice. I've gone
through all my sound settings and everything looks good. Any help greatly
appreciated!
David.
On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 07:43, Andrew Downie <access_tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:access_tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
Ella, by the time your email reached here it was blank.
Andrew
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<audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > On Behalf Of Ella Yu
Sent: Monday, 13 January 2020 2:57 AM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [audacity4blind] Recording While Wearing Headphones