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Checking your audio functions, Sounds and Audio Devices

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Checking your audio functions To check the system sound on your computer, follow these steps: 1. Select Start > Control Panel. 2. Click Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices > Sounds and Audio Devices. 3. When the Sounds and Audio Devices Properties window opens, click the Sounds tab. Under Program events, select any sound event, such as a beep or alarm, and than click the Test button. You should hear sound through the speakers or through connected headphones. To check the record functions of the computer, follow these steps: 1. Select Start > All Programs > Accessories > Entertainment > Sound Recorder. 2. Click Record and speak into the microphone. Save the file to your desktop. 3. Open Windows Media Player and play back the sound. NOTE: For best results when recording, speak directly into the microphone and record sound in a setting free of background noise. ▲ To confirm or change the audio settings on your computer, right-click the Sound icon on the taskbar, or select Start > Control Panel > Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices > Sounds and Audio Devices. Checking your audio functions 11

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Checking your audio functions
To check the system sound on your computer, follow these steps:
1.
Select
Start
>
Control Panel
.
2.
Click
Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices
>
Sounds and Audio Devices
.
3.
When the Sounds and Audio Devices Properties window opens, click the
Sounds
tab. Under
Program events
, select any sound event, such as a beep or alarm, and than click the
Test
button.
You should hear sound through the speakers or through connected headphones.
To check the record functions of the computer, follow these steps:
1.
Select
Start
>
All Programs
>
Accessories
>
Entertainment
>
Sound Recorder
.
2.
Click
Record
and speak into the microphone. Save the file to your desktop.
3.
Open Windows Media Player and play back the sound.
NOTE:
For best results when recording, speak directly into the microphone and record sound in a
setting free of background noise.
▲
To confirm or change the audio settings on your computer, right-click the
Sound
icon on the
taskbar, or select
Start
>
Control Panel
>
Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices
>
Sounds and
Audio Devices
.
Checking your audio functions
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