[BRLTTY] Feature request

[Lars Bjørndal]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 03:30:43PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote:
> Lars Bjørndal <lars at lamasti.net> writes:

[...]

> > Many braille displays has a speaker built in. Could it be possible to
> > utilize the speaker to play the sould from the console/BRLTTY? E.g. use the
> > braille display as the sound device?
> 
> Most braille displays do not offer any way for the host to trigger
> internal sounds on the braille display.  So this is a dead end unfortunately.
> 
> There is an upcoming trend to ship displays with a bluetooth based sound
> device included.  These will make it possible to play PCM sounds
> directly from the host.  I guess most users will want to use this for
> sending the speech synthesis output to their braille display.  At least
> that is what it is ment for. 

Thank you for the feedback. I thought the ability to use the braille
display speaker would be nice when using devices like rpi, where there
is no internal speaker, and the sound you want is the console beep
only.

Thanks, Lars