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TTS for Teams
Hi
As suggested before, I feel like there is a servely lack of accessibility in MSFT Teams: When you are not able to speak (due to a disability), you normally use an AAC-program to speak.
When using Teams, one has to chat instead of speaking (if you are not able to speak) due the lack of any kind of TTS support in Teams! Some teachers do not read the chat when they're presenting.
One "quick fix" (inspired by Zoom) is being able to share your computersound without sharing the screen and allowing multiple screens to be shared in the same meeting.
If you wanted to, I would argue that Azure's "Speech" TTS could be better than the Zoom feature: Being able to navitely use a Microsoft TTS feature to Speak during Teams Meetings would be awesome ❤️
Links to my previous suggestions (same subject):
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MicrosoftTeams/status/1352609786886574083 (Microsoft Teams did not read my suggestion thoroughly enough to understand my suggestions.)
Tech Community: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/tts-for-teams-meetings/m-p/1255034#M49383 (No response from Microsoft)
Hi Jdreioe
Have you considered using an app like Virtual Audio Cable VB-Audio Virtual Apps (vb-audio.com) ?
It's a sound device that provides an input and an output device. Select the VAC input as your speakers, and the VAC Output as your mic, then any noise from your PC will become your mic input. Set the listen settings on the input so you can actually hear the meeting. This way your computer sound is turned into your mic input, so you could use a soundboard, TTS etc.
Hi Jdreioe
Have you considered using an app like Virtual Audio Cable VB-Audio Virtual Apps (vb-audio.com) ?
It's a sound device that provides an input and an output device. Select the VAC input as your speakers, and the VAC Output as your mic, then any noise from your PC will become your mic input. Set the listen settings on the input so you can actually hear the meeting. This way your computer sound is turned into your mic input, so you could use a soundboard, TTS etc.
- Virtual Audio Cable apparently does not work in Teams. On Zoom and Discord however, it works...
Jdreioe It works for me on a PC just fine, I did test this before suggesting it.
- No I have not. It seems to be the solution I have been looking for, but it's still super annoying to use a third party tool to fix a issue that could be easily fixable with Teams.
