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

[Didier Spaier]

Le 09/05/2021 à 22:38, Aura Kelloniemi a écrit :
> 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
> [--]
>   > 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.

I can understand this, but how big would be the latency increase?

Still, this could be an issue for audiophiles, but they can use jack.