From 49bac122d225f45b9616059f7bb84bfbe5eb4d53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KemoNine Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 15:17:24 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] add note about conflicting access needs to contributions ; import kemonine split audio blog post as both a tip and anecdote --- .../kemonine-audio-processing-woes.md | 62 +++++++++++++++++++ content/faq/contributing.md | 4 ++ content/tips/tech-split-audio.md | 59 ++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 125 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/anecdotes/kemonine-audio-processing-woes.md create mode 100644 content/tips/tech-split-audio.md diff --git a/content/anecdotes/kemonine-audio-processing-woes.md b/content/anecdotes/kemonine-audio-processing-woes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5676a07 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/anecdotes/kemonine-audio-processing-woes.md @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +--- +title: Audio Processing Woes +author: + - KemoNine +publishDate: 2023-03-23 +lastMod: 2023-03-23 +toc: true +draft: false +categories: + - anecdote +tags: + - anecdote +--- + +## Changelog +{{< changelog >}} +{{< change 2023-03-23 "Initial creation" >}} +{{< /changelog >}} + +{{< end_section >}} + +## My Concern +{{< back_to_top >}} + +It's not well known but I have a speech processing issue. I have a really hard time decyphering audio for voice communication. It's so bad I rely on sub titles to watch video content with speech as well as read lips in meat space when with others. + +My problem works like this: my hearing is good (I hear noises just fine) but I cannot hear people speak in terms of words. That seems odd, correct. I **know** a human is talking at me but all I hear is the sound of their voice, not words. It's like hearing a guitar in a song, it's noise but not words (speech). + +This problem is exacerbated by background noise of any form. A video game, voices, the sound of the ocean, anything will cause this issue of mine to worsen. + +I also have had tinnitus since I was a small child. So long I cannot rememer a time before it existed for me. Tinnitus is a kind of background noise and exacerbates my speech issue as well. + +{{< end_section >}} + +## Historic Coping Skills +{{< back_to_top >}} + +If you've met me before, you know I'm not all that young, this hasn't been a 'thing' (as far as you knew ;) ) and you're probably surprised right now. + +In meat space I make sure the people I talk to are facing me and I'm facing them and I read their lips. If the other person or people have their back to me, I cannot hear anything except on the rare occassion I can focus hard enough to process the speech. I'm deaf to **speech** in this situation by default now. + +The separation of background and voice has been critial for me with phones, particularly cell phones. It's also why I cannot handle audio books. + +The fix for me for cell phones was ear pieces/buds to isolate the **voice** from the background for my brain. I also discovered my **right** ear is the one that can process voices, not the left for whatever reason. If I use an ear piece for voice audio on my phone I can [generally] hear the other person or people. + +{{< end_section >}} + +## New Coping Skills +{{< back_to_top >}} + +Over the years I've clearly developed and honed a number of coping skills. Unfortunately, I need a bit more help day to day at this point. I need to develop new methods that help me with speech, especially for my growing number of conference calls using full video and voice. I also play a game with others regularly which requires game audio and voice communications to be isolated for my speech processing needs. + +{{< end_section >}} + +## A Fix +{{< back_to_top >}} + +Thankfully Windows 10 has a way to address this need built into the operating system. + +For my fix you can see the [Split voice and game audio]({{< ref "/tips/tech-split-audio.md" >}}) for details on how I improved my situation. + +{{< back_to_top >}} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/faq/contributing.md b/content/faq/contributing.md index 56fe82e..452a3ee 100644 --- a/content/faq/contributing.md +++ b/content/faq/contributing.md @@ -190,6 +190,10 @@ Please review the main tag list [here](/tags) (warning: this list can be large a Long term we hope to build a tag glossary to enhance discovery, search and synonym management. If/when this glossary is created, we will update our guidelines related to tagging. +### Conflicting Access Needs + +If you are working on a tip that conflicts with any access needs, the tip *must* be tagged as conflicting with the form `conflicting-need-[specific_need]` where `specific_need` is a need such as `low-vision`. + {{< end_section >}} ## Tag and Category Extra Considerations diff --git a/content/tips/tech-split-audio.md b/content/tips/tech-split-audio.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..84c6bf2 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/tips/tech-split-audio.md @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +--- +title: Split voice and game audio +author: + - KemoNine +publishDate: 2023-03-23 +lastMod: 2023-03-23 +toc: true +draft: false +categories: + - tips + - tech +tags: + - audio + - speech + - hearing +--- + +## Changelog +{{< changelog >}} +{{< change 2023-03-23 "Initial creation" >}} +{{< /changelog >}} + +{{< end_section >}} + +## Attribution +{{< back_to_top >}} +This tip is a syndicated copy of KemoNine's [blog post](https://blog.kemonine.info/blog/2022-08-01-more-accessible-gaming-audio/). It has been split into this page and a related [anecdote]({{< ref "/anecdotes/kemonine-audio-processing-woes.md" >}}). + +{{< end_section >}} + +## What? +{{< back_to_top >}} + +This page outlines how to split your computer audio output so a game or aplication's audio is sent to your speaker and the voice audio is sent to a headset. + +This can be helpful for those with speech processing needs. It allows you to isolate voice to a headset or similar which lets the voice audio come through more strongly than any other audio. + +{{< end_section >}} + +## Windows 10 +{{< back_to_top >}} + +1. Open main settings application +2. Go to system settings +3. Select Sound tab +4. Click "Sound Control Panel" link on the right +5. Right click the audio output device you want as the main audio and select "Set as default device". If the option is not present and the device has a green cicle checkbox, it's already the default device. +6. Right click the headset output device you want as the communication audio and select 'Set as default communication device". If the option is not present and the device has a green circle checkbox, it's already the default device. +7. Click on the microphone tab +8. Right click your microphone and set it as the default if it doesn't have a green circle checkmark. + +{{< back_to_top >}} + +## Related Anecdotes +{{< back_to_top >}} + +- [Audio Processing Woes]({{< ref "/anecdotes/kemonine-audio-processing-woes.md" >}}) + +{{< back_to_top >}} \ No newline at end of file