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Hello,
Not a long time ago Joanie has removed ancient sound module which apparently had more issues than it was trying to address. I can see Chrys has added verry minimalistic gstreamer based player which can beep in a seperate thread. I think adding this introduces some more challenges: - Is gstreamer going to be a dependency or can it be tweaked into optional dependency and its presence will be checkedeither at install time or at runtime? For example running orca withopenbox or other minimalist windo manager will have to have this specified in case not to cause issues for new users. Also are these python 3 gstreamer bindings installed with it? I guess debian and ubuntu might have seperate package for this. Are you looking for more gstreamer dependant features e.g. playing other sounds or even considering implementing speechserver factory for espeak playing sounds it generates via this gstreamer backend? What about audio device selection? Currently I am using two sound cards on my desktop one for speech-dispatcher output, the other for other sounds my computer plays. I am not saying what you are trying to do is incorrect but it's something I am also interested in. However these are some of the complicated side effects that I am afraid. And I can't make up my mind about this. Would not it be better to research and try to make some good use of speech-dispatcher sound icons since it now handles audio output for speech? Greetings Peter On 22.08.2015 at 03:50 kendell clark: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 hi I second both of these. A slightly shorter tone and a both option. Joanie might be in the best position to add that once chrys submits the patch, but in the meantime I'll try to see if I can figure out how to add the option. I don't think I can do anything about the tones, that code is over my head. Thanks Kendell clark B. Henry wrote:I backed up my ~/.local/share/orca dir to be safe and did ./auatogen.sh ./configure --prefix-=/usr/local make sudo make install before I saw your msg. What would your method do to distinguish the orca versions? would they both be in /usr/bin? Anyway, so far it is working for me. I find the tone a bit louder than I'd like, but more importantly I think itmay last a bit longer than it needs to for each beep. I've not used nvda much in a long time as I have not used windows much ina long time, but if I remember corectly it gave shorter tone bursts that gave one a good idea of what was happening with out being extremely intrusive. The other thing I'd really like to see is a both option so that one could get both spoken anouncements and beeps, i.e. I'd like to bee able to turn progress anouncements back to speak every 10 seconds as is default, but have beeps informing me of changes if they occur inbetween the spoken feedback. Is this beeping for each percent of progress, or is it timed? This is a good feature that I think many people will want to use/thanks much for dong the work to make it happen. I think it's most of the way there, but does need to be "toned" down" a little bit, pardon the bad pun, well are most puns not bad actually? Congrats.-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJV19V/AAoJEGYgJ5/kqBTdUjUP/22suofI5glVG57nlBnBW1yc ZdlqtN3Yz9cvUOeURDlvzFPA475ch3M0Mj+UxTu8/5QI13hLJ7rxfstk7iogom5s OK3JXEII+nqcUXvSulkJaX7j0ZGyXV6mjUbfHt1/e9UVE6RKo0uOdE03cMQgDVwX OkEZfw7wYiHC4hsvh5e3USnvZAzpUY3O/D5T5nfiua0UO/OkjRMMdV5l+mR4WAC0 Ah3/qRtAnCEyicemCGXlXaWL0u/WoBvUtPRM0oUVKS74Zt+yD/5mk8TysfQsbGsk 0J8gytcjczW5E53P0QvuzFKy+jUNEWEUorc4Y2OnBCY7WO7oFxio7LWNqYoUKoh3 2D4ah5DNbB6dBxisIquNuGbYeNoGVCR5qDZpCxoAMAa/YbH2bqGKL+LT6Igcmoj7 tpMpvoDe5bG7k9eyNVoIF75JiRUPaJqAetDkYxgYdHGS4QvPN8MN9GqH8UPiDll0 Tx8m4six/6xi2BgiBf+kqO4X+4mNvw389XQ6f5ywLkclB8D3sfuQ00cSoKzvBbzT UpeGcS51ho8pgylKJTJyxOTrdLz5OsvcrAbKdXFVBPMvV/06PcDYjH7Xd0U4CwJ2 V6B4YuBmN8wY+S003peHb5PiqIfIhOxP2zW/2GBNJEHvimkak6Ka7UxzcgvBbso6 HDKbSsGbrbgROU5r6h8V =W+Ze -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ orca-list mailing list orca-list gnome org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca. The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp |