It's possible to write scripts for both screen readers and do the switch
inside those scripts before each screen reader is run.
On Sun, 18 Mar 2018, Keith Barrett wrote:
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 08:33:18
From: Keith Barrett <li...@barrettpianos.co.uk>
To: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Introduction and using Orca with Debian sound systems
Resent-Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 12:49:33 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org
On 18/03/18 07:15, john doe wrote:
Hi James, I'm sending this e-mail through the list in the hope that this
nasty bug will be fixed once and for all.
On 3/17/2018 5:54 PM, James AUSTIN wrote:
Hi John
On 17 Mar 2018, at 14:30, john doe <johndoe65...@mail.com> wrote:
If you don't start orca is speakup speaking?
Yes, Speakup speaks under the text console (CTRL+ALT+F1 etc). Orca does
not speak under the MATE desktop.
It looks like it's the pulse audio bug back again.
Yes that is my conclusion also. I thought that this particular bug had
been squashed years ago
Sadly, this bug is still relevent.
Basically, if orca is speaking, speakup won't speak!!! :)
The only way i have managed to achieve is by setting speechd.conf to use
ALSA, but I do not want to have to reset speechd.conf each time I want to
s between the two Screen Readers. Is there a better way?
Not that I know of.
The only way I know is to remove pulseaudio completely, then speakup and orca
work as expected.
In my case I set the audio output to libao in
/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf and all works for me.
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