Re: [orca-list] Accessibility broken under Wayland Fedora 31

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Hello Kyle,

Le 11/11/2019 à 19:42, Kyle via orca-list a écrit :
> Unfortunately the link you provide to the message on the PulseAudio email list only says that redirecting to dmix is a 
> "really bad idea," but doesn't specify why this is the case.

Furthermore this dates back more that 9 years ago, as this message was posted on Tue, 5 Jan 2010.

> I can only speak from my own experiences with dmix, but using it here has been anything but smooth on most of 
> the devices I've tried. Speech tends to trip over itself for one thing, i.e. one utterance begins before the 
> previous utterance has completed. This especially seems to affect speech interruption in a terminal where 
> output tends to scroll and chatter a lot. Latency while dmix is being used is also a huge problem wherever I 
> have used it. Unless the alsa front end utilities and plugins such as dmix have improved significantly, I can 
> only say that from where I'm sitting, dmix looks like a pretty ugly work-around even if Pulse isn't 
> redirecting through it.

That's interesting. Which version if alsa (and pulse, case occurring) do you currently use? and are you 
currently using PulseAudio?

I will point to your message on the Slint mailing list and ask if people observe the same issues.

Best,

Didier