Quick Guide to Voice Commentary

Welcome to Vugraph Voice!

To begin your voice commentary broadcast, please click the button near the chat area. Vugraph voice is "click-to-speak" - this means you have to click and hold down the button each time you want to broadcast your sound, or press and hold down the spacebar on your keyboard. If you are not depressing your spacebar key, or you are not clicking on the "Click to speak" button, then whatever you are saying will not be "broadcast" and others will not hear you.

Adjusting your sound
The first time you try to broadcast, you will probably be asked "Do you wish to allow permission to access your microphone?" Please grant permission.



If everyone tells you your volume is too low and they cannot hear you well, please try this:

• Right click somewhere on your BBO screen and look for "Settings" in the menu that appears. Click on "Settings".



• Look for the picture of the microphone and click it.


• Make sure the choice of output device is correct. ie, in this picture above you see "Default". If the "Broadcasting..." button does not become highlighted in red when you hold it down and speak, click the small arrow next to the selected device and try the other options in the list if there are more available. If you do not have a USB microphone plugged into your computer, but instead have built in microphone and want to use that, choose that please.
  

  

• In addition, you can adjust your "record volume"; you can make it louder or softer as you wish.
  
• One note: Many newer computers, especially laptops, have built in microphones. If you do not specifically change the output devices to a plugged in microphone, your software usually defaults to the built in microphone. In that case, speaking into your plugged in mic does you no good. You have to either change the output device choice via the steps above, or speak into your built in microphone area.

If people say they cannot hear a word...
This software may still contain bugs. If players tell you they cannot hear you and you know you have done all you can to make your voice output loud ask them to either

1. Make sure they clicked the button, or

2. Make sure their "Volume" slider for you is turned all the way up, or

3. Leave the table and return to it again. Maybe something is stuck! 

If some of your listeners can hear you fine, but others say they cannot hear you, make sure they are using the web version, and not the older downloadable version of BBO. To use the newest version of Bridge Base they have to click www.bridgebase.com then click "LOGIN/REGISTER" and log on as usual with their normal username and password.

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