Re: [orca-list] Orca + Wireless Headphones? Audio forces through internal speaker. :(

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Orca sends things strings to be spoken directly to speech-dispatcher and
lets speech-dispatcher manage everything.

--joanie

On 07/25/2018 09:31 PM, Matt - Envrin Group via orca-list wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Hope there's some active and knowledgeable users on this list.
> Quickly, went blind about 20 months, and am running the latest version
> of Linux Mint MATE.  Orca is awesome, and thank you very much to the
> developers, as it's now obviously an important part of my life.
>
> Quick problem though.  I recently picked up a bluetooth keyboard and
> headphones, and got the headphones working fine.  All audio is going
> through the headphones, except Orca screen reader.  Orca is still
> forcing the audio through the internal speaker, hence my other
> headphones I have plugged into the laptop.
>
> Since all other audio is going through the wireless headphones, I'm
> assuming this must be an Orca issue?  However, there's nothing in the
> Orca settings that allows me to choose an audio output device.
>
> Any known fixes or solutions?  Since I'm blind and have no need for
> the screen anymore, and work 16 hours/day behind the computer, it
> would be awesome to get this working.  Then I can just put my laptop
> in a corner somewhere, and wander around where ever with my headphones
> on and wireless keyboard and work just fine.
>
> If there is no current fix, I'm a pretty decent developer myself.  Any
> tips on where in the Orca code I'd be looking at, and whatever tips /
> directions on what I'd be looking to modify would be great.  I can
> generally figure out problems as needed one way or another.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Matt
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