add note about conflicting access needs to contributions ; import kemonine split audio blog post as both a tip and anecdote

content/anecdotes/kemonine-audio-processing-woes.md

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+---
+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 >}}

content/faq/contributing.md

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 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

content/tips/tech-split-audio.md

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+---
+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 >}}