[BRLTTY] Fwd: Problems when using brltty in the terminal

[Aura Kelloniemi]

On 2021-05-09 at 22:28 +0200, Didier Spaier <didier at slint.fr> wrote:
 > ### In Slint, we want to share audio resources between speech apps that
 > ### rely on alsa and other apps that rely on pulseaudio.
 > load-module module-alsa-sink device=dmix
 > load-module module-alsa-source device=dsnoop
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 > 1. I have been told that such a setting is not recommended. But nobody 
 > so far
 >     has been able to tell me why, and I have received zero complaint 
 > from users
 >     about it so far, as they get speech and braille in both console and 
 > graphical
 >     environments and can easily switch.

The reason is latency. If the audio is mixed in software both on pulseaudio
and alsa levels, the latency is unnecessarily high, and the processing will
waste resources.

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Aura