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Re: audio ducking.

Joseph Lee
 

Hi,
NVDA is not a communications application (although it could act that way). I'd say NVDA should not have to go through hoops such as registering itself as a communications application to enable audio ducking in Windows 7 (that is, let NVDA do its own thing and become an expert at it, which is receiving, processing and presenting screen information).
As for audio ducking in general: yes API support is required, which came with Windows 8 (technical: oleacc.dll (OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) Accessibility library, the library that implements Microsoft Active Accessibility) introduces audio ducking related functions in Windows 8 and higher; I'll indeed talk about why audio ducking cannot be supported on Windows 7 and earlier and on portable copies on March 14th).
Cheers,
Joseph

-----Original Message-----
From: Life My Way via Groups.io [mailto:lifemyway=yahoo.com@groups.io]
Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 9:33 AM
To: nvda@groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] audio ducking.

I did some digging and windows 7 does support audio ducking in the way you are discribing for windows 8 and above I can give you the referenced page i looked at .
it is.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd371006(v=vs.85).aspx


On 2/29/2016 9:44 PM, Joseph Lee wrote:
Hi,
I'm talking about Windows API. In order for audio ducking to work, a screen reader must tell Windows that it wishes to indeed duck audio (this requires certain privileges). I'll talk audio ducking during the upcoming NVDA presentation.
Cheers,
Joseph

-----Original Message-----
From: Life My Way via Groups.io [mailto:lifemyway=yahoo.com@groups.io]
Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 7:43 PM
To: nvda@groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] audio ducking.

what do you mean the needed function if you are relying on the
communations item then it is there in windows 7


On 2/29/2016 7:01 PM, Joseph Lee wrote:
Hi,
The needed function isn't available in Windows 7.
Cheers,
Joseph

-----Original Message-----
From: Life My Way via Groups.io
[mailto:lifemyway=yahoo.com@groups.io]
Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 5:01 PM
To: nvda@groups.io
Subject: [nvda] audio ducking.

I don't see why not that nvda could do audio ducking in windows 7 because in the comunations settings you have options to do nothing lower the sound by 50 percent or 80 percent and so on, So why not allow nvda to do audio ducking in windows 7?
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