Lars Bjørndal <l...@lamasti.net> writes: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 02:54:36AM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote: > > [...] > >> Brltty plays what we call alert tunes for events the user might care about, >> e.g. trying to navigate beyond the edge of the screen, wrapping to the >> next/previous line, skipping over blank lines, etc. The default is to use >> the >> PC speaker to play these tunes. Its tune device can, however, be changed >> from >> within brltty's preferences menu to other things, e.g. to play PCM audio via >> the sound card. >> >> Additionally, the about-to-be released version (5.3) of brltty contains a >> new >> feature that helps overcome a related problem. Wthout a physical PC speaker, >> or >> without the pcspkr kernel module, the regular console bell can't be heard >> either. Since a blind user can't see a visual bell, being able to hear the >> console bell is important to many. Brltty has a new setting called Console >> Bell >> Alert. If this setting is enabled then brltty listens for Linux console bell >> events, and plays them via its current tune device. So, with brltty running >> and >> this new setting enabled, and with the tune device set to PCM, the old >> familiar >> console bell can again be heard via the speakers, headset, or whatever the >> user >> is using. > > Many braille displays has a speaker built in. Could it be possible to > utilize the speaker to play the sould from the console/BRLTTY? E.g. use the > braille display as the sound device?
Most braille displays do not offer any way for the host to trigger internal sounds on the braille display. So this is a dead end unfortunately. There is an upcoming trend to ship displays with a bluetooth based sound device included. These will make it possible to play PCM sounds directly from the host. I guess most users will want to use this for sending the speech synthesis output to their braille display. At least that is what it is ment for. -- CYa, ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕ _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
