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

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

This is indeed a very useful feature, and it can be hard to lower other aps volume when they come up louder 
than expected as sometimes I can't even tell 
what window I ahve focused. 
Just a day or two ago I could not try and download a a playing media file because it was too luod for me to 
hear orca.
Sometimes of course this is easy, just pause a media player and change volume in a mixer or sound settings 
interface, lower the player's volume, etc, 
but other times life is far more complicated at best.
Thanks in advance for any work you can do towards making this feature a reality.
    

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  Luke Yelavich wrote:
Thu, May 12, 2016 at 05:07:12PM +1000

> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 02:42:16PM AEST, kendell clark wrote:
> > hi all
> > I've just come across a feature that nvda for windows supposedly just
> > added, which allows it to lower the volume of other applications while
> > it's speaking or playing sounds. I haven't used it since I don't use
> > windows except to maintain other people's and to play with occasionally
> > when a new version comes out, so I don't know how well this works but it
> > sounds neat. Would it be possible to add something like this to orca,
>
> I have thought about this for Speech DIspatcher, which is where it would
> be done.
>
> Its one of those things that requires some improvement to audio, which is
> being worked on. More work would then need to be done to allow for clients
> to request that to be done.
>
> Luke
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