If you are running Speech Recognition software on your Power Macintosh computer, you may experience some difficulties when you try to play audio compact discs. When the Speech Recognition software is active you can mount audio compact discs, see the counter working in the AppleCD Audio Player, and hear audio from multimedia compact discs' and alert sounds without any problems. Clicking the Options button in the Sound In portion of the Sound control panel brings up the message "Sound input devices could not be accessed at this time.

This is an issue involving accessing sound options while running Speech Recognition. When you turn Speech Recognition on, it "listens" for commands captured by the microphone. Because of this, Speech Recognition will not allow you to select the Audio compact disc as the input source. Therefore, you cannot play an audio compact disc through your internal speakers while speech recognition is on.

Once Speech Recognition is turned off in the Speech Setup control panel, the sound in options of the sound control panel can be accessed in the Sound In portion. Click the button under Audio CD and click an X in the playthrough option box to hear your audio compact disc through your internal speakers.

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