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Are you trying to use audio from the computer and the mic at the same time?<br>
If so, you will have to install a separate amplifier (small) to which you
can attach the audio from the computer and the mic and connect the speakers
from the projector to the amp output.<br>
If not, you should be able to plug a mic into the Mic input of the computer
and the output should come through the projector speakers just as the CD
does.>Hi all,<br><br>I have a question. Some students in our computer lab have complained that,<br>from the 3rd/4th road to the back, they cannot hear the instructor at the<br>front very well (the acoustic barrier of the monitors and CPU's, humming<br>noise, etc.). We have an LCD projector with good built-in speakers hanging<br>from the ceiling, in the middle of the room. The projector is hooked up to<br>the instructor's computer at the front. When we play CDs, for instance,<br>those speakers work very well to disseminate the sound from that central<br>point to the rest of the room.<br><br>Now, here's my question: is there any way (software/hardware/device) that<br>would allow a microphone to be connected to the computer, and send the<br>sound through the speakers, the same way the CD-Rom player does? It<br>wouldn't work if the speakers that are activated are the instructor's<br>computer's themselves, since that wouldn't change the
 situation (i.e., the<br>voice still would come from the front -whether speaker-mediated or not-<br>instead of the center of the room). <br><br>We would need something simple to install and setup (if it is a software<br>solution, all the better), so that we can convince our lab administrators<br>to adopt that solution.<br><br>We are using Macs G4.<br><br><br>Thanks for any ideas/suggestions/pointers<br><br></pre>
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