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From: Jared Smith
Date: Jan 6, 2012 10:21AM

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Lucy Greco wrote:
> Everything sounds grate the mike is working and the screen reader sounds good and as soon as I open the meeting room I get a horrible hi pitched squeak.

This post is rather off-topic, but...

It sounds like a basic feedback loop to me. The microphone is picking
up the audio, and when the presentation software opens, it plays the
microphone audio, which the microphone then picks up again and
amplifies over and over until it's just a squeal. You might be able to
address this by changing settings to ensure that your own microphone
audio never plays through the speakers. I can't give you specific
directions as you have a fairly complicated set up, but that seems to
be the general issue. Or simply use headphones rather than your
speakers.

Jared