I have some questions about braille TTY, running alongside orca.

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Hello,

In the desktop your braille display should use the braille facility 
built into
orca, it won(t work directly as it does in console mode.

About the robotic voice: you may change it, in the Orca preferences GUI, but
you will probbaly need to install additional ones.

I am not sure to understand; do you want to use your braille display in the
host system or in the Or both?

As stated in this Changelog:
https://github.com/brltty/brltty/blob/master/Documents/ChangeLog
The Brailliant 40X from Humanware is supported by brltty, but only in the
latest release brltty 6.4.

Instead the Slint distribution that I maintain ships brltty-6.4. And ships
several voices, many other ones can be bought to oralux.org:
https://oralux.org/voice.php?mylang=en

I can't answer about Bluetooth, for this question you could ask on our 
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Cheers,
Didier
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Didier Spaier
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But Ubuntu 21.10 ships brltty 6.3 so provides no support for this device
Le 07/12/2021 à 01:49, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit :
> Good afternoon, my subject line and someone says it all, should I run 
> braille TTY alongside orca, or should I use the braille facility built 
> into orca to drive my braille display? I am running Ubuntu 2110 and a 
> virtual machine. Although orca is running, I can't understand that 
> robotic voice anymore. That's why I am extremely interested in adding 
> support for my braille display. The second question is because my 
> braille display is one of the latest, and greatest. Is it even 
> supported? I use a human where Brailliant BI 40 X display. I normally 
> run it in a new USB mode when I have to use an assistive listening 
> device for the computer. This is especially true if the listening device 
> must be Bluetooth, because in the host operating system which is Mac OS 
> Monterey, it appears that you cannot run Bluetooth audio, and Bluetooth 
> braille together. If this happens, speech is extremely choppy to 
> unintelligible. USB braille when using Bluetooth audio and Bluetooth 
> braille. I suspect that this is something to do with my machine.
> 
> 
> Since whenever I use the guest, I use braille in USB mode I'm thinking 
> supporting this should be substantially easier than if I were to use 
> Bluetooth for instance. Does anyone have any thoughts, and/or 
> suggestions on this issue? Please be aware that I am dictating this to 
> the computer, so there's something that I have written above, please 
> reach out to me and asked me what I might have meant. I look forward to 
> clearing up any misunderstandings that might come up as a result of the 
> above written text. Thank you all very much for reading this.