[orca-list] Pulseaudio and speech-dispatcher/gnome-speech in Ubuntu.

[Hynek Hanke]

Luke Yelavich napsal(a):
> But that is still not practicle. Users may wish to listen to music, even if 
> it is softer than speech, and this solution would not allow that to happen.
>   
In the setup I described, inside gnome-session, there is absolutely no 
problem to mix speech and other Audio as the user PulseAudio daemon 
takes care of that. The only case when it doesn't work is when the user 
switches to the text console, but this is a far minor issue and it is 
resulting from the design of PulseAudio. It is definitely better with 
this small limitation than when there would be no speech at all possible.
> This is true, however at such a late stage of release preparation, these 
> changes are so big as to possibly introduce breakage, without thorough 
> testing, which would leave us out of time to get any fixes in for any 
> discovered issues.
>   
I agree. I was just pointing out that the thing seems to be broken just now.
> If a user wishes to use speech-dispatcher with any application system wide, 
> like for example BrlTTY, at this point I think they either know what they are 
> doing, or know where to find the documentation that explains how to make the 
> necessary adjustments to configuration.
>   
Given the current state of things, I see that both blind and seeing 
users need to use the text console from time to time, so they simply 
have to cope with the difficulties. It is not their choice how difficult 
we make it for them to set up a solution.
> What I can do however, is make other packages available that implement such 
> settings changes for users to use on their systems.
> They won't be in the official repositories, but they will still be 
> installable from a repository like any other package. However my hands are 
> tied in terms of what I can officially do.
>   
Yes, I understand. I think that would be a good solution to the problem 
given the constraints you mentioned. That would be really nice, but the 
package should be available soon.

With regards,
Hynek Hanke