Re: [orca-list] audio ducking, good feature to have?

[Luke Yelavich <luke yelavich canonical com>]

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 05:14:05PM AEST, kendell clark wrote:
> hi
> Makes sense. One feature I'm excitedly waiting for is for orca to
> generate a speech dispatcher configuration so that apps that use
> speech-dispatcher can use orca's settings without having to support orca

As to that, it will require a little thought to make sure its secure. You
will probably have to use a Speech Dispatcher configuration program to copy
config data from one client to another, Orca likely won't have permission
to do that itself.

> I don't understand why nvda's requirement is for windows 8 or
> later, but I suspect it uses some feature that only exists in those
> versions.

Well it won't be much different for Speech Dispatcher either, the ducking
functionality will only be available via the PulseAudio output.

Luke