Does anyone know of a program that will let one adjust the Bass and tremble
of a usb speaker on a UMPC. I have gone to sound & hareware, the sound
properties will not allow the adjustment of the Bass / tremble. I really,
need to be able to change these settings.

My wife has lost her voice and we use the pc for a text to speech device
only but the bass is very deep.
Any help will be appericated
Chuck

>> text to speech device <<

Can you post a bit more about how you are achieving this... i.e. are you
using xp's native text to speech?

The usb aspect also throws a curve in that what comes out of that is
going to be driver specific, so, info on the usb speakers you are using
would help there as well.

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

This might be of value if you haven't read it yet...

<http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306902>

Assuming the default MS engine, which voice are you using?

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

My Wife, has NextupTalker as a text to speech program (she had her tounge
and voice box removed recently) With Neospeech Kate's voice, on her UMPC we
are using a Jlab-Flex USB speaker. I have a hearing impairment and what is
spoken is sometimes not real clear because of the deep Bass. I have tryed to
adjust the sound properties in sound and hardware but there are no
adjustments for Bass and Tremble.
Chuck

"Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" wrote:

> This might be of value if you haven't read it yet...
>
> <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306902>
>
> Assuming the default MS engine, which voice are you using?
>
> Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]
>

>> but there are no adjustments for Bass and Tremble. <<

I'm not going to be much more help as I can't duplicate what you have,
but some thoughts;

>> Jlab-Flex USB <<

Suggest contacting them for possible options...

Try some of the different speaker options in audio setup... for example,
a large speaker system might deemphasize the bass/

The voice will have an impact on this... have to believe that there is a
high pitch voice model option out there somewhere.

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

Beverly,
I did contact Jlab, and they said to try winamp, and that's a program for
music, she has no music files on the computer, it is for T2S only, They had
no other suggestions except to contact Microsoft. Another speaker system is
not praticle for they are either USB or Jack "wired", with the Jlab she can
close the cover of the laptop bend the speaker over to the top cover and this
makes it very mobile for her, and the speaker is still attached, so she can
go where ever. Hopefuly you can understand why we need and audio software
program.

Thank you very much for time and effort!
Chuck

"Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" wrote:

> >> but there are no adjustments for Bass and Tremble. <<
>
> I'm not going to be much more help as I can't duplicate what you have,
> but some thoughts;
>
> >> Jlab-Flex USB <<
>
> Suggest contacting them for possible options...
>
> Try some of the different speaker options in audio setup... for example,
> a large speaker system might deemphasize the bass/
>
> The voice will have an impact on this... have to believe that there is a
> high pitch voice model option out there somewhere.
>
> Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]
>
>
>

I do understand the need, but not able to offer much other than raw theory.

Personally, I would probably attack the problem as;

Search for a better "voice" ...there seem to be a number of options out
there from a cursory google search on text to speech.

Perhaps replacing the actual speakers in the usb box with ones that
don't have bass capabilities.

There is also the option of removing the usb electronics and have them
drive a portable speaker which has a manual bass control or
incorporating a bass filter into the speaker lines in the usb box.

Again, all of these are shots in the dark, but, notice that I don't
think you are going to have much luck with the ms controls. As Jlab
noted, you do have the option of running the output through "mixer
board" types of audio software which you might be able to find in
addition to winamp which I wouldn't know how to input to in the first place.

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

Chuck:

You won't like this answer, but:

It has to be built-in to the driver or application. If the setup
screens don't show this capability, there's no way
to "add it in".

Media players can do it because they process the
stream as it plays. Your T to S software doesn't
apparently have this capability built in.

"Chuck" <Chuck@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> Does anyone know of a program that will let one adjust the Bass and tremble
> of a usb speaker on a UMPC. I have gone to sound & hareware, the sound
> properties will not allow the adjustment of the Bass / tremble. I really,
> need to be able to change these settings.
>
> My wife has lost her voice and we use the pc for a text to speech device
> only but the bass is very deep.
> Any help will be appericated
> Chuck
>