Audio channel splitting

[Hyp3rion]

I'll try and explain this as best as I can.
I am trying to find a solution for a user that I support. This user is blind and uses JAWS software which speaks to her from her computer, via headphones, so she can navigate around the screens.
As part of her job she has to transcribe meetings that she listens to from audio CD. These used to be supplied on tape and she had a setup where she could have the tape recording played back in the left hand channel of the headset and the JAWS software speaking in the right but since the change to CD this is not possible.
So my first question would be if anyone knows of software that would be able to separate the CD sound and the JAWS sound from one another and deliver them monaurally to whichever headset earphone we choose?
If not, I think there could be an option of using an external CD player with an audio output and using a splitter box to split the CD sound from the computer output but would rather there was a software solution.

Thanks in advance

Hyp

 

[bushfluff]

Software wise you may have luck with Virtual Audio Cable. Its a program I used to use which basically adds a configurable number of outputs into your windows "playback devices" and for every one it adds there you get an input in "recording devices", so you can pipe the audio back in from those recording devices.

I did always find it a bit of a pig to set up but I think it will do the job for you (downmix from stereo to mono virtually for each output, if you set the output as stereo, like normal, and the recording input from the other end of the "virtual cable" to mono.)

From here on I can't be of much help: perhaps you should pipe those two mono cables into another stereo one to pan them left and right (using the VAC cable manager), then the final step is output the "recording" end of that stereo mix cable to headphones. For most convenience the windows "listen to this input" check box would work well to put it through ot the headphones/speakers.

So, create three virtual cables, two stereo to mono, one stereo to stereo. JAWS to one of the stereo->mono playback devices, CD software to the other stereo->mono playback device, attach both of those to the left and right channels of that third cable (using the VAC cable manager). Then you have a stereo "recording device" in windows which contains the panned/mixed audio and it is simple to play that to whatever headphone or speakers you want to.

Hope this was of help even if some of it was a little off, check out the demo of Virtual Audio Cable to see if you can figure it out! (I'm happy to give you a hand if you get stuck with it)