[BRLTTY] brltty new user

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Storm Dragon on 2016/07/01 at 21:06 -0400]

>Although I have autoread turned on, new incoming text is not read. This is the 
>case for most things, like if I type ls, the list of files isn't automatically 
>read, and I have to use kppluss+numpad 7 and 9 to move through the output.

Yes, that's expected. Brltty doesn't monitor characters as they're being 
written to the screen. It looks at the screen for how it is as a whole, and 
tells you, based on your settings, what has changed.

>Also, even on the loudest setting, the espeak driver is still very quiet. 
>Using espeak with the speech-dispatcher driver is much louder, but I would 
>prefer just to use the espeak driver itself. It is still usable, but I was 
>wondering if maybe it could be changed to take full advantage of espeak's 
>volume range. 

Are you building brltty from source? If so, I an suggest a change to the source 
to see if it resolves your problem. If it does, we can make that change 
permanent.

>I'm not sure what the programatic version of this would be, but if you type 
>espeak -a 200 "message" then the speech is at max volme. 

Yes, it looks like brltty's eSpeak driver is limiting the volume to only 100%.

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