Re: [orca-list] Orca + Wireless Headphones? Audio forces through internal speaker. :(

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

... And as Luke answered in the Speechd mailing list, this is managed
then by whatever audio output is set in Speech-Dispatcher's
configuration, preferably pulseaudio in this case.

To check, and unlike you changed the default configuration for audio
output with the spd-conf command, type:
grep AudioOutputMethod /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf

If pulse is not used, yiu can set it so using spd-cpnf or (assuming you
are the only user of the laptop) edit this file to have;
AudioOutputMethod "pulse"
This will work if your speech-dispatcher has been compiled with support
for pulse. Telling which distribution and version you use could help
find out that.

Didier

On 07/26/2018 04:19 AM, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Orca sends things strings to be spoken directly to speech-dispatcher and
> lets speech-dispatcher manage everything.
>
> --joanie
>
> On 07/25/2018 09:31 PM, Matt - Envrin Group via orca-list wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Hope there's some active and knowledgeable users on this list.
> > Quickly, went blind about 20 months, and am running the latest version
> > of Linux Mint MATE.  Orca is awesome, and thank you very much to the
> > developers, as it's now obviously an important part of my life.
> >
> > Quick problem though.  I recently picked up a bluetooth keyboard and
> > headphones, and got the headphones working fine.  All audio is going
> > through the headphones, except Orca screen reader.  Orca is still
> > forcing the audio through the internal speaker, hence my other
> > headphones I have plugged into the laptop.
> >
> > Since all other audio is going through the wireless headphones, I'm
> > assuming this must be an Orca issue?  However, there's nothing in the
> > Orca settings that allows me to choose an audio output device.
> >
> > Any known fixes or solutions?  Since I'm blind and have no need for
> > the screen anymore, and work 16 hours/day behind the computer, it
> > would be awesome to get this working.  Then I can just put my laptop
> > in a corner somewhere, and wander around where ever with my headphones
> > on and wireless keyboard and work just fine.
> >
> > If there is no current fix, I'm a pretty decent developer myself.  Any
> > tips on where in the Orca code I'd be looking at, and whatever tips /
> > directions on what I'd be looking to modify would be great.  I can
> > generally figure out problems as needed one way or another.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Matt
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