Two voices heard in mate, I hear sound saying ok once before orca boots and turns on but don't know the source of that spoken ok.
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, Didier Spaier wrote: > Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 14:10:17 > From: Didier Spaier <did...@slint.fr> > To: Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org>, Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com>, > Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> > Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org, debian-accessibil...@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: buster rc2 install resultsn > > Hi, > > Jude: are there two voices heard in console mode or in Mate? > > I ask as during installation the id of the selected card is stored in > /var/run/espeakup.card, I presume to be set as default for espeakup in > the installed system > Samuel, is this right? > > But only one card id is stored so I fail to see how this can trigger two > voices. > > But I have no idea if this setting is also used when starting Speech > Dispatcher for Orca in Mate, hence my question. > > Also Cyril, should I assume that RC2 included a fix for the issue that I > raised in this post? > https://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/2019/06/msg00019.html > > I have a doubt as this iso: > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/buster_di_rc2/amd64/iso-cd/debian-buster-DI-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso > is dated 2019-06-24 14:13 > and there are more recent post in the thread. > > Let me add that the issue is with a Lenovo Thinkpad W520 which is a > rather common hardware. I am not directly in concern being neither blind > nor a Debian user, but still I hope this can be fixed before the release > for the benefit of others. > > Cheers, > > Didier > 2019-06-24 14:13d > On 6/28/19 6:32 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Hi Jude, > > > > Thanks for your mail. > > > > Cross-posting this answer to debian-accessibility@: > > > > Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> (2019-06-27): > >> First the log files I tried to get the system to save in /mnt were not > >> saved and those choices got made using the debian main menu. > >> I checked the disk integrity and the disk was found to be valid. > >> I installed the mate desktop using the defaults in software selection. > >> On boot, I get two voices first louder and second softer and playing > >> identical text shortly after the first voice. I don't know why this is > >> and tried adjusting sound which cleared the problem when sound volume got > >> increased in the mate menus until the next reboot. > > > > I think this might be a side effect of our trying hard to detect each > > and every sound card, reading a prompt using all of them in turn, so > > that users can press Return when they hear something. Maybe some state > > in the sound card driver changes while iterating, which triggers this > > difference in volumes? > > > > Just wild-guessing as I'm no sound expert? > > > > > > Cheers, > > --
