User's Manual

Bluetooth Software Suite Users Manual
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Audio
An audio link makes it possible to transfer sound
from one Bluetooth device to another.
There are basically two ways of using an audio
link: Your computer acts as either a Bluetooth
speaker phone or as a Bluetooth audio device.
The Bluetooth speaker phone feature makes it
possible to use two or more computers like
walkie-talkies. You can use the (built-in or
external) microphone and speaker of your
computer for the conversation. Or you can use an
ordinary (wired) headset. Now, imagine yourself at
the office, transferring a file wirelessly to your
colleague in an office down the hall while
explaining something to him, speaking into the
microphone of your computer:
The Bluetooth audio device feature allows you
to send a sound file, for instance music or a voice
recording, that you want to record on the
computer receiving the file. Both computers act as
Bluetooth audio devices. The computer recording
the sound file makes use of the Microsoft Sound
Recorder or a similar application. (For information
on how to use the recording application, please
refer to the documentation for the application in
question.)
For the sake of completeness, we should mention
a couple of other scenarios involving both the
Bluetooth speaker phone and the Bluetooth audio
device features:
You can send a sound file from one computer
(acting as a Bluetooth audio device) to another
computer (acting as a Bluetooth speaker phone).
This makes it possible for the user who receives
the sound file to listen while receiving the file.
Another example would be to speak into the
microphone of one computer (acting as a
Bluetooth speaker phone) while recording your
speech on another computer (acting as a
Bluetooth audio device).
For information on how to enable each of the two
features, the Bluetooth speaker phone and the
Bluetooth audio device, please see the section
“Enabling/disabling PC speaker”
.