Re: [orca-list] Solving screenreader sound problems in presence of sound servers once and for all

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Hi Matthew,

That was my assumption. In Slint it works out of the box, so it would 
certainly
be possible in Debian if only someone could convince the maintainers of ALSA
and PulseAudio for Debian to use dmix as mixer for PA by default and not
redirect the streams coming from PA to ALSA. But hey, I have written 
that years
ago and am not in concern, sorry for beating this dead horse again.

Le 20/02/2021 à 17:48, ilovecountrymusic483 gmail com a écrit :
> Didider,
>
> What I think he is referring to is being able to use orca and speakup at the same time.  Ie using orca with a 
> gui system such as gnome or mate and get speech ina concile with speak-up or fenner.  At the moment, you have 
> to do some editing of some configuration files inorder to get both working orca and speech working together.  
> At least in Debian, this works in other distros like arch this is not so easy.  HTH.
>
> Matthew
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: orca-list <orca-list-bounces gnome org> On Behalf Of Didier Spaier via orca-list
> Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2021 9:17 AM
> To: orca-list gnome org; Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup linux-speakup org>
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] Solving screenreader sound problems in presence of sound servers once and for all
>
> I suggest that you bring this issue to a support channel for your
> distribution
> as this works out of the box in others.
>
> There is nothing to be pushed upstream (to ALSA or PulseAudio developers) as
> this depends on the configuration provided by the distribution in use or
> customized by the user.
>
> Didier
>
> Le 20/02/2021 à 14:23, Michał Zegan via orca-list a écrit :
> > How does it work then, if pulseaudio releases device, and some gui
> > program plays something, it plays on pulseaudio, so you shouldn't be
> > hearing it on console because pa just released the device.
> > Also in any case it's still the thing. Things like that should work out
> > of the box and shouldn't require workarounds. So if there is a proper
> > way to fix it that would make it hassle free it should be considered to
> > be pushed upstream, if it cannot be pushed upstream, then the issues
> > that prevent it should be mitigated.
> >
> >
> > W dniu 20.02.2021 o 14:18, Jookia pisze:
> > > On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 02:12:54PM +0100, Michał Zegan wrote:
> > > > This is the thing, you need hacks to work around stuff, and then you get
> > > > drawbacks.
> > > > For example does your setup allow me to play sound on gui and hear it on
> > > > console when I log in to the same user, or, play sound on console when
> > > > screenreader is speaking?
> > > > Like the last one is likely possible if espeakup uses dmix.
> > >
> > > Yes to both.
> >
> >
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