Specify which speaker, external or internal, to use for audio playback.

restrictions

Requires SYSPRV privilege to set information for users other than yourself; requires SYSPRV or SYSNAM privilege to show information about users other than yourself.

Syntax

SET SPEAKER speaker

SHOW SPEAKER

Qualifiers	Defaults
/ALL	/NOALL
/LOG	/NOLOG
/UIC="[g,m]"	None
/USER=username	None

Parameters

speaker

Required parameter specifying which speaker, EXTERNAL or INTERNAL, to use for audio playback.

Description

By default the audio content of audio files and messages is output to the internal speaker on workstations equipped with an audio device (SOA0:). You may select the external speaker with the command

EMAIL> SET SPEAKER EXTERNAL

The command

EMAIL> SET SPEAKER INTERNAL

selects the internal speaker.

The /SPEAKER qualifier of the PLAY command may be used to override settings made with the SET SPEAKER command. Use the SHOW SPEAKER command to display your current sound level setting.

Note that on many early VAXstation 4000/60 systems, the internal speaker is inoperable.