--- Forwarded Message from "Mary Kiyoko Ohno" <[log in to unmask]> ---
>From: "Mary Kiyoko Ohno" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum" <[log in to unmask]>
>References: <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #6127 problems with computer audio and recording
>Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 13:13:25 -0400
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Hello.
We use Rosetta Stone for our lower levels, and have had similar
problems. Some of the following may resolve your problems:
1) Within Rosetta Stone itself: The recording supposedly should happen
automatically, when the student repeats immediately after hearing the
original example and it will play the student's version right back. If not,
it can be done "manually" by clicking on the microphone icon on the bottom
left of the pop-up window. The icon must be illuminated and you will see a
progress bar. In order to hear it, you have to click on the play button.
Also, there is a settings control (on the lower right of the screen, to the
left of the man with the parachute). You might try to adjust this up to
level 10.
2) We have our microphone jack directly into the back of the CPU. Make sure
that it's in the correct "mic" port. There may be a special setting on your
headset that turns off the microphone. If so, make sure that it is turned on
or away from an off position.
3) It may be a systems setting. From the desktop, you can click on the sound
icon (that looks like a yellow megaphone). Under volume control, go to
Options - Properties - Recording and make sure that the "Mic" radio button
is clicked and that no setting is on "mute". You can adjust the input volume
up here too. Alternatively, go to Start - Programs - Settings - Control
panel - Multimedia.
4) Have the students try again and speak up, directly into the microphone.
Hope that helps. Good luck!
-- Mary Kiyoko Ohno
Carlos Rosario International
Washington, DC
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Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 3:25 PM
Subject: #6127 problems with computer audio and recording
> --- Forwarded Message from Denise Hamwey <[log in to unmask]> ---
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> >Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 15:05:49 -0700 (PDT)
> >From: Denise Hamwey <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: problems with computer audio and recording
> >To: [log in to unmask]
>
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if anyone on this list would be able
> to help with a problem my colleagues and I are having
> in our computer-based language lab. One of the
> software programs we use is the Rosetta Stone. If you
> are familiar with Rosetta, there are exercises which
> allow you to record your speaking and compare
> pronunciation to that of a native speaker. In our
> lab, we cannot get this function to work, except for
> in one row of 4 computers. Also, as of last week, we
> are unable to get the listening exercises to work.
> Despite playing with the volume on both the headset
> interface and the computer, students cannot hear
> anything.
>
> We have tried adjusting settings on playback and
> record, and we have even gone to our technology expert
> in our school and to the person who installed our lab
> for help, but nobody seems to understand what the
> problem is (I am also not sure how hard they have
> tried to fix the problem). I am not sure if this is a
> simple or complicated problem to solve. The recording
> function has pretty much not worked from day 1, and
> the audio from the CD-ROM could be heard up until last
> week. We just got new headphones for our computers,
> so I do not know if that has anything to do with the
> audio problem.
>
> Any advice into solving these two problems would be
> most appreciated!
>
> Denise Hamwey
>
>
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