[BRLTTY] Making brltty speak

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2021, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:

> Is it pulseaudio that you use to output speech?

On my main workstation: no.  On my RPi: possibly, I'm not sure.

> Does it run as root on your system?

Last time I consciously used it, then yes it did. That required a few 
config changes though. I remember it wasn't easy.

> If so, does speech-dispatcher run as
> root as well, assuming that's what you are using to deal with speech?

I'm using brltty's espeak driver directly. I want speech with minimum 
latency.

> Do you also have applications running as your own user and connecting to
> speech-dispatcher, like orca?

Maybe. Last time I was successful in making Orca work, it used its own 
speech output separate from BRLTTY's with ALSA or PulseAudio doing the 
audio multiplexing/mixing. I try to stay in the text console as much as 
possible though, so I'm not a good reference about Orca usage.


Nicolas