How to split audio while sharing screen.

By Karina Velazquez, 16 April, 2025

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Hi guys, I’ve been trying to get an answer for this situation without any success, but I hope you AppleVis friends can help me find a solution.**

Sometimes in my job, I have to give training sessions to our clients, and they are already recorded, which I stream via Teams, Zoom, or whatever platform. My problem is, as you can imagine, that my screen reader keeps participating while I share the audio from my PC.

I use a surface laptop 4 an JAWS 2022, and I want to find a possible solution to split my JAWS audio to another output, sound card, or whatever keeps my training free from my screen reader.

I’ve already tried using an external USB sound card, and it helps — for example, I can send my screen reader through my earphones and the rest of the PC audio to my PC speakers. However, when I share my PC audio during training sessions, all the audio is shared, even if JAWS is only going through my earphones connected to the external USB sound card.

Any ideas on how to resolve this issue?

Thanks in advance.

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By SeasonKing on Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - 06:02

Assuming you have Teams Enterprise version, you can utilize something called Teams live share. Now, I think video files aren't just supported yet, but, you can put this video file in a blank slide, set playback option to play full-screen, and then do the Powerpoint Live share using teams.
I know it sounds clunky, but, trust me, it's very elegant. Plus your screen-reader audio doesn't go through while sharing. You can even present the slide, let the video playback begin, and move away from that window to do something else entirely, say note-taking etc, as Teams is not sharing your Laptop screen, just the powerpoint slides.
If your slides have text, images with alt-text, then the person on the other side can even read those with their screen reader with Teams live share. It kind of uploads a coppy of your PPT to everyone, and follows your instructions on which slide to show. They get accessibility options for high contrast and even live translation of the slide. Pretty impressive.
More info on Powerpoint Live share: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/share-slides-in-microsoft-teams-meetings-with-powerpoint-live-fc5a5394-2159-419c-bc59-1f64c1f4e470