Solve : Alternative to the System Speaker?

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Answer» I recently got a NEW computer which does not have an internal system speaker. On my old computer, I used the system speaker as an ALERT for when I was not wearing my headphone. Now, I am looking for an alternative. The only ideas I have come up with are to FIND either a USB DEVICE that I can make to beep like a system speaker or a USB powered light that I can program to blink. So far, I have not been able to find either. I considered using regular sound card speakers, but I could not find a way to limit them to only certain alerts and no other sound. Does anyone know of something I can use as an alert instead of the system speaker?Just out of curiosity, what computer doesn't have an internal speaker?I have a HP Pavilion p6310y with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. I cannot find the articles now but I read on the internet that manufacturers are shipping computers without internal speakers because it would save money. I might be wrong about my computer not having an internal speaker but when I try to make it beep, I get a beep over my headphones instead.And if the headphones are not plugged in? Quote from: Allan on September 19, 2010, 11:02:28 AM Just out of curiosity, what computer doesn't have an internal speaker? Both of my Shuttles (ST62K, BOUGHT Nov 2004, SN78SH7, bought March 2010). I believe most Shuttles omit the speaker. When my headphones are not plugged in, there is no sound at all.According to the specs on the O/P,s computer http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/hp-pavilion-p6310y/4507-3118_7-33968313.html?tag=specs it is correct that there are NO speakers in the computer. truenorth Quote from: truenorth on September 19, 2010, 04:46:36 PM According to the specs on the O/P,s computer http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/hp-pavilion-p6310y/4507-3118_7-33968313.html?tag=specs it is correct that there are NO speakers in the computer. truenorth Yeah, I believed the original poster.Neither my HP laptop nor my Dell tower has a system speaker and I miss it very much. I always us Windows Sticky Keys / Toggle Keys and relied on the speaker beep to tell me what mode it was in. Now it beeps in the audio speakers, if they are turned on, but there is a time delay and the tone is out of sequence. I hate it; so much for progress. I hope you find a solution for your problem. Come to think of it, in the Windows 7 Ease of Access Center there is a setting for using visual alternatives for sounds. Maybe there is something there that would work, if it's not too annoying. It would be interesting to know why internal speakers are being phased out. All of the ones I've seen were really cheap speakers that couldn't have cost that much, so I'm not sure they are being phased out for strictly financial reasons. Probably, most users didn't what all those beeps were for anyway and some found it annoying.

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I recently got a NEW computer which does not have an internal system speaker. On my old computer, I used the system speaker as an ALERT for when I was not wearing my headphone. Now, I am looking for an alternative.

The only ideas I have come up with are to FIND either a USB DEVICE that I can make to beep like a system speaker or a USB powered light that I can program to blink. So far, I have not been able to find either.

I considered using regular sound card speakers, but I could not find a way to limit them to only certain alerts and no other sound.

Does anyone know of something I can use as an alert instead of the system speaker?Just out of curiosity, what computer doesn't have an internal speaker?I have a HP Pavilion p6310y with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.

I cannot find the articles now but I read on the internet that manufacturers are shipping computers without internal speakers because it would save money.

I might be wrong about my computer not having an internal speaker but when I try to make it beep, I get a beep over my headphones instead.And if the headphones are not plugged in? Quote from: Allan on September 19, 2010, 11:02:28 AM

Just out of curiosity, what computer doesn't have an internal speaker?

Both of my Shuttles (ST62K, BOUGHT Nov 2004, SN78SH7, bought March 2010). I believe most Shuttles omit the speaker.

When my headphones are not plugged in, there is no sound at all.According to the specs on the O/P,s computer http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/hp-pavilion-p6310y/4507-3118_7-33968313.html?tag=specs it is correct that there are NO speakers in the computer. truenorth Quote from: truenorth on September 19, 2010, 04:46:36 PM

According to the specs on the O/P,s computer http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/hp-pavilion-p6310y/4507-3118_7-33968313.html?tag=specs it is correct that there are NO speakers in the computer. truenorth

Yeah, I believed the original poster.Neither my HP laptop nor my Dell tower has a system speaker and I miss it very much. I always us Windows Sticky Keys / Toggle Keys and relied on the speaker beep to tell me what mode it was in. Now it beeps in the audio speakers, if they are turned on, but there is a time delay and the tone is out of sequence. I hate it; so much for progress.

I hope you find a solution for your problem.

Come to think of it, in the Windows 7 Ease of Access Center there is a setting for using visual alternatives for sounds. Maybe there is something there that would work, if it's not too annoying.
It would be interesting to know why internal speakers are being phased out.

All of the ones I've seen were really cheap speakers that couldn't have cost that much, so I'm not sure they are being phased out for strictly financial reasons. Probably, most users didn't what all those beeps were for anyway and some found it annoying.

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