Hello Deane, Perhaps I'm making a mountain out of a mole hill too. A friend of mine who streamed several NFB events said he uses two sound cards so he can hear his screen reader while streaming an event without the screen reader's speech going out on the stream. He told me that he assigned the screen reader to use one sound card, and used the other sound card to hear the audio of the event he was streaming. Are you saying that you can have both audio sources run through the same sound card and be able to hear it plus your screen reader's speech and do other work on the computer without anyone listening in hearing the screen reader chatter while you work on your computer? I'm a newby to all of this so please bear with me as I learn the ropes. Peter Donahue ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean Martineau" <dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <blindcasting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 6:06 PM Subject: RE: screen reader speech during streaming Maybe I'm missing something here, but if you listen through headphones on your system, nobody will hear the screen reader. that's what I do all the time. Dean