Opened 5 years ago
#18349 new defect
Audio getting muted in screen reader installed on Windows 10 guest (Virtualbox 6.0.2)
| Reported by: | alan-ghelardi | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | audio | Version: | VirtualBox 6.0.2 |
| Keywords: | audio Windows | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | Windows | Host type: | Linux |
Description
I've upgraded recently from Virtualbox 5.2.6 to 6.0.2 - Archlinux is the host and Windows 10 the guest system. As I'm totally blind, I use a screen reader to access the computer (NVDA 2018.4.1 installed on the guest). Both virtualbox-ext-oracle and guest additions are up to date.
After upgrading I noticed that the screen reader gets muted for a while and starts speaking again. The problem happens suddenly and frequently. When it gets muted and I switch to the host window and go back to the guest, it starts speaking again and after some seconds (or minutes) the problem repeats.
I've already confirmed that the problem isn't related to the screen reader; its commands continue working even when it is muted and there are no logs showing a NVDA crash. Initially, I thought that the entire audio was being affected by the problem, but when I play a video (from Youtube, for example) in background and continue to use the screen reader, surprisingly the issue doesn't happen (after stopping the video the problem back to arise as before).
Are you aware about some known issue that may be related to the aforementioned problem?
