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

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Correction: I meant:
do you want to use your braille display in the
host system or in the VM or both?

Didier
	
Le 07/12/2021 à 02:19, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit :
> 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 
> mailing
> list:
> To subscribe or unsubscribe, email slint-request at freelists.org with the 
> subject
> 'subscribe' or 'unsubscribe', then answer the email you will receive.
> More: email slint-request at freelists.org with as subject 'help' or 
> 'commands'.
> 
> Cheers,
> Didier
> -- 
> Didier Spaier
> Slint maintainer
> https://slint.fr/doc/HandBook.html
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
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