How to convert speakers with a shortcut on Windows 10

Usually to switch using audio devices, you need to click the speaker icon in the system tray. However, you can perform this operation with a shortcut key combination.

On one computer can connect multiple audio devices, when adding a few sets of bluetooth speakers, or screen speakers due to the computer need to connect. Usually to convert computer speakers, users need to click the speaker icon in the system tray and then select the speaker device they want to play.

However, users can save the selection operation using the speakers, via the shortcut assigned to each speaker device. The following article will show you how to set the keyboard shortcut for the device on the computer.

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How to change the speaker connected to the computer via shortcut

To set up shortcuts for speaker devices on the computer, we will install the Audio Switcher tool. This tool is completely free and does not require much installation on your computer.

With bluetooth speaker devices, users need to connect to the computer before using the software.

Step 1:

Download the Audio Switcher tool according to the link below as a .zip file and then extract it . Click the extract folder to install Audio Switcher on the computer.

  1. https://audioswit.ch/er

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Step 2:

Successfully activating the Audio Switcher on the computer will display the interface with the connected speaker devices on the computer.

Since my computer currently has only computer speakers, I will show the interface as shown below. If your computer is connected to different speaker devices, it will show the full name on this list.

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Here click on the speaker device to set the shortcut key and select Set As . below, click on the Set Hot Key .

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Step 3:

In the Edit Hot Key interface, the user enters the computer shortcut key to use, and then press the Save button below.

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Step 4:

If you click on Settings below, we will see a list of custom settings for speaker devices, as well as software, such as starting with your computer, disabling shortcuts, etc. If you want to use any option, check Select the box.

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Step 5:

When you click on the Hotkeys section you will see the set of shortcut keys, along with a few customizations. Red X icon to delete the set shortcut.

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Plus icon to add shortcuts to speaker devices.

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Pen icon to edit the set shortcut for audio device.

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So if the user wants to switch to any audio device that is connected to the computer, just press the set shortcut key to finish.

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I wish you all success!

Update 26 May 2019
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