Re: [orca-list] off-topic: At a meeting, people say they hear the screen reader.

[Mallory <stommepoes stommepoes nl>]

It is a good thing to check if the meeting software offers a "system sound" option and whether that's on.
I recall years ago testing zoom with a group and we were testing the various abilities to either send or 
block screen readers to the group call.

This is assuming it's not, as the others here have mentioned, just making it into your mike via speakers. 
I've seen some people manage to have one ear-piece for their screen reader and call in with a phone 
separately-- a mobile phone on the other side of your face doesn't easily pick up something piped into an 
ear-piece on the other side, but it does cause an issue of available hands.

cheers,
_mallory

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020, at 2:55 PM, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> That'd be my guess. I wonder if they hear it clearly, as if it was being 
> used through their own speakers, or faintly in the background. Could be 
> audio from the headphones leaking into the mic, and it probably sounds 
> close enough to speech that noise cancellation doesn't identify it. I'm 
> guessing noise cancellation subtracts the other participant's noise so 
> the speakers don't feed back, not your own screen reader, which it 
> assumes is someone talking on your end.
>
> On 6/12/20 7:36 AM, Peter Vágner via orca-list wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > Is it likelly they are hearing your screen reader sounds because of 
> > headset microphone?
> >
> > I imagine that microphone is a part of your headset and sometimes echo 
> > cancellation does not filter out all the sounds.
> >
> >
> > Can your meeting partners hear your speech when they say they are 
> > hearing your screen reader?
> >
> >
> > Have you done some advanced pulseaudio configuration changes such as 
> > using module_loopback to hear sound from your microphone on demand?
> >
> >
> > I have some simple scripts so I can play the screen reader output to a 
> > meeting so I can demo something on demand for blind meeting 
> > participants but you know the default is not to capture screen reader 
> > sounds thus I'm surprised that it's happening for you without doing 
> > something to that effect.
> >
> >
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
> >
> > Dňa 12. 6. 2020 o 12:49 José Vilmar Estácio de Souza napísal(a):
> > > First of all forgive me for the subject completely outside the scope 
> > > of the list, but to be honest I don't really know who to ask.
> > >
> > > I am participating in meetings using microsoft teams and google 
> > > meetings and from time to time people comment that they are listening 
> > > to my screen reader.
> > >
> > > Would anyone have any idea why this happens?
> > >
> > >
> > > If anyone has any tips or suggestions you can reply in PVT to 
> > > vilmar informal com br. Thank you for your help. Once again I 
> > > apologize for the non-pertinent subject.
> > >
> > >
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