[Emacspeak] Re: Missing command?

[T.V Raman <raman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Cross via Emacspeak <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org> writes:


The recommended way is to disable notifications  by configuring your
sound device apropriately.

You can of course hack around in the code, that's the point of Open
Source, but you should not expect some random hack to work unless you
have shared it and proven it useful.

> Hwaen Ch'uqi via Emacspeak <emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org> writes:
>
>> Greetings again,
>>
>> I am re-asking, as no one has yet responded. It appears that
>> dtk-notify-shutdown is missing in emacspeak-54. Is there a solution
>> for this? I would greatly appreciate any feedback.
>>
>
> Off the top of my head, there are a few things I would try. Raman
> probably knows of a far more elegant solution.
>
> - Use C-e d . (dtk-notify-stop) to stop speech on the notify stream
>
> - You could set the virtual ALSA device used for notifications via
>   tts-notification-device to a specific ALSA device and then either mute
>   that device or set the volume much lower to make the overlap less disturbing
>
> I thought there was an option to enable the separate notification
> stream, but either I imagined it or it no longer exists, so I don't
> think there is a way to not have separate notification streams. You
> could try changing the calls to make-thread to funcall in emacspeak.el,
> which I think would then make things synchronous. The issue you will get
> then is that notifications will probably interrupt other speech, which
> can be just as annoying as multiple speakers talking at once.
>
> I use pulsaudio and the pavolcontrol program to set the notification
> stream to a much lower value, so notifications a much quieter and don't
> bother me should they occur at the same time as other 'main' speech is
> occurring. 
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