Sound In Options Not Available Message (9/95)


I have a Power Macintosh running System 7.5 and can not play audio CD's. I can mount audio CD's, see the counter working in the AppleCD Audio Player, and hear audio from multimedia CD's and alert sounds without any problems. Pressing the "Options" button in the Sound In portion of the Sound control panel brings up the message "Sound input devices could not be accessed at this time." What is happening here?
This is an issue involving accessing sound options while running Speech Recognition. When you turn Speech Recognition on, it "listens" for commands captured by the microphone. Because of this, Speech Recognition will not allow you to select the Audio CD as the input source. Therefore, you cannot play an audio compact disc through your internal speakers while speech recognition is turned on.

Once Speech Recognition is turned off via the Speech Setup control panel, the sound in options of the sound control panel can again be accessed in the Sound In portion. Click the radio button under Audio CD and put an X in the playthrough option to hear your audio cd through your internal speakers.


Article Change History:
15 Sep 1995 - Added clarifying information.

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Published Date: Feb 19, 2012