Is there a way to change the volume of NVDA's sounds?
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John Isige
Hi all.
Pretty straightforward question, can it be done? I'm listening to some fairly faint videos so I have to crank my volume up. I lower the volume of my synth with the ring, but NVDA's sounds, e.g. going in and out of focus mode, are still pretty loud in comparison to everything else. I suppose I could just turn that sound off if it comes down to it, but I figured I'd find out if I'm missing something obvious first.
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Rosemarie Chavarria
Hi, John,
Go to the voice menu with NVDA insert V. You’ll be in the voices menu. Tab until you hear volume. If it’s at 100 percent, use the left arrow to lower it.
Hope this helps.
Rosemarie
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From: John Isige
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 9:42 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: [nvda] Is there a way to change the volume of NVDA's sounds?
Hi all.
Pretty straightforward question, can it be done? I'm listening to some fairly faint videos so I have to crank my volume up. I lower the volume of my synth with the ring, but NVDA's sounds, e.g. going in and out of focus mode, are still pretty loud in comparison to everything else. I suppose I could just turn that sound off if it comes down to it, but I figured I'd find out if I'm missing something obvious first.
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Lino Morales
John are these vids Youtube videos? If so check your volume is up on the page the vids are on.
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From: Rosemarie Chavarria
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:49 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Is there a way to change the volume of NVDA's sounds?
Hi, John,
Go to the voice menu with NVDA insert V. You’ll be in the voices menu. Tab until you hear volume. If it’s at 100 percent, use the left arrow to lower it.
Hope this helps.
Rosemarie
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From: John Isige
Hi all.
Pretty straightforward question, can it be done? I'm listening to some fairly faint videos so I have to crank my volume up. I lower the volume of my synth with the ring, but NVDA's sounds, e.g. going in and out of focus mode, are still pretty loud in comparison to everything else. I suppose I could just turn that sound off if it comes down to it, but I figured I'd find out if I'm missing something obvious first.
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Chris Mullins
Hi You could try switching off the focus change sounds in NVDA settings, NVDA will then announce focus changes verbally. Alternatively, you could turn down System sounds in the Volume Mixer app.
Cheers Chris
From: John Isige
Sent: 21 April 2020 17:42 To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: [nvda] Is there a way to change the volume of NVDA's sounds?
Hi all.
Pretty straightforward question, can it be done? I'm listening to some fairly faint videos so I have to crank my volume up. I lower the volume of my synth with the ring, but NVDA's sounds, e.g. going in and out of focus mode, are still pretty loud in comparison to everything else. I suppose I could just turn that sound off if it comes down to it, but I figured I'd find out if I'm missing something obvious first.
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Gene
I don’t know if system sounds would have any bearing on the volume of these
sounds, though I doubt it. These aren’t system sounds, they are NVDA
sounds. I tried Rosemary’s suggestion and I found it both lowers the
volume of speech and of the kinds of sounds being asked about so it appears that
will solve the problem. You may want to remember the current number of the
NVDA sounds settings so you can set it to the same volume again if you
wish.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Mullins
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Is there a way to change the volume of NVDA's
sounds?
Hi You could try switching off the focus change sounds in NVDA settings, NVDA will then announce focus changes verbally. Alternatively, you could turn down System sounds in the Volume Mixer app.
Cheers Chris From: John
Isige
Hi all.
Pretty straightforward question, can it be done? I'm listening to some fairly faint videos so I have to crank my volume up. I lower the volume of my synth with the ring, but NVDA's sounds, e.g. going in and out of focus mode, are still pretty loud in comparison to everything else. I suppose I could just turn that sound off if it comes down to it, but I figured I'd find out if I'm missing something obvious first.
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John Isige
Weird! I'll have to go and try that because I'd think lowering the
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volume with the synth ring would do the exact same thing. Maybe they are lowered, but if so they're still significantly louder than speech. It's also good to know that with the sound off focus changes will be announced verbally, since I've never messed with that. Thanks all! Oh yeah, I'm watching a video music lesson. Here it is on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz1I4Nc9iV0 I'm doing it from their website because I just started paying for all the lessons, but the volume's all the way up. He's just kind of quiet. Other lessons are louder so they're fine. So I can lower speech currently and turn him up and get a good volume, but you have to go into focus mode to start the video playing, and those sounds are louder than everything else. Now I have a couple ways of fixing it, and I'll bet one of them will work.
On 4/21/2020 13:24, Gene wrote:
I don’t know if system sounds would have any bearing on the volume of
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Kevin Cussick
that is not the sounds that is the voice.
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On 21/04/2020 17:49, Rosemarie Chavarria wrote:
Hi, John,
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Rosemarie Chavarria
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From: Kevin Cussick via groups.io
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 1:38 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Is there a way to change the volume of NVDA's sounds?
that is not the sounds that is the voice.
On 21/04/2020 17:49, Rosemarie Chavarria wrote: > Hi, John, > > Go to the voice menu with NVDA insert V. You’ll be in the voices menu. > Tab until you hear volume. If it’s at 100 percent, use the left arrow to > lower it. > > Hope this helps. > > Rosemarie > > Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for > Windows 10 > > *From: *John Isige <mailto:gwynn@...> > *Sent: *Tuesday, April 21, 2020 9:42 AM > *To: *nvda@nvda.groups.io <mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io> > *Subject: *[nvda] Is there a way to change the volume of NVDA's sounds? > > Hi all. > > Pretty straightforward question, can it be done? I'm listening to some > > fairly faint videos so I have to crank my volume up. I lower the volume > > of my synth with the ring, but NVDA's sounds, e.g. going in and out of > > focus mode, are still pretty loud in comparison to everything else. I > > suppose I could just turn that sound off if it comes down to it, but I > > figured I'd find out if I'm missing something obvious first. > >
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Kevin Cussick
No problem keep smiling.
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On 21/04/2020 21:40, Rosemarie Chavarria wrote:
I thought he meant NVDA itself. My mistake.
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Tony Malykh
Yes, I wrote an add-on for that - it's called Tony's enhancements. Once you install it you can adjust NVDA volume by pressing NVDA+Control+PageUp/PageDown.
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--Tony
On 4/21/2020 9:42 AM, John Isige wrote:
Hi all.
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It's perfectly OK to give links to Add-Ons, even if you are the author. In this case I'll save Tony the additional effort. From the "official" add-ons page:
Tony's enhancements--Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 1909, Build 18363 Science has become just another voice in the room; it has lost its platform. Now, you simply declare your own truth. ~ Dr. Paul A. Offit, in New York Times article, How Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Took Hold in the United States, September 23, 2019
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Gene
I don’t know why, but using the ring only lowers speech and has no effect
on NVDA sounds. I expected the ring and the dialog setting to do the same
thing, but the settings aren’t identical in what they do.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: John Isige
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] Is there a way to change the volume of NVDA's
sounds? Weird!
I'll have to go and try that because I'd think lowering the volume with the synth ring would do the exact same thing. Maybe they are lowered, but if so they're still significantly louder than speech. It's also good to know that with the sound off focus changes will be announced verbally, since I've never messed with that. Thanks all! Oh yeah, I'm watching a video music lesson. Here it is on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz1I4Nc9iV0 I'm doing it from their website because I just started paying for all the lessons, but the volume's all the way up. He's just kind of quiet. Other lessons are louder so they're fine. So I can lower speech currently and turn him up and get a good volume, but you have to go into focus mode to start the video playing, and those sounds are louder than everything else. Now I have a couple ways of fixing it, and I'll bet one of them will work. On 4/21/2020 13:24, Gene wrote: > I don’t know if system sounds would have any bearing on the volume of > these sounds, though I doubt it. These aren’t system sounds, they are > NVDA sounds. I tried Rosemary’s suggestion and I found it both lowers > the volume of speech and of the kinds of sounds being asked about so > it appears that will solve the problem. You may want to remember the > current number of the NVDA sounds settings so you can set it to the > same volume again if you wish. > Gene > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Chris Mullins <mailto:cjmullins29@...> > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:34 PM > *To:* nvda@nvda.groups.io <mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io> > *Subject:* Re: [nvda] Is there a way to change the volume of NVDA's > sounds? > > Hi > > You could try switching off the focus change sounds in NVDA settings, > NVDA will then announce focus changes verbally. Alternatively, you > could turn down System sounds in the Volume Mixer app. > > Cheers > > Chris > > *From: *John Isige <mailto:gwynn@...> > *Sent: *21 April 2020 17:42 > *To: *nvda@nvda.groups.io <mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io> > *Subject: *[nvda] Is there a way to change the volume of NVDA's sounds? > > Hi all. > > Pretty straightforward question, can it be done? I'm listening to some > > fairly faint videos so I have to crank my volume up. I lower the volume > > of my synth with the ring, but NVDA's sounds, e.g. going in and out of > > focus mode, are still pretty loud in comparison to everything else. I > > suppose I could just turn that sound off if it comes down to it, but I > > figured I'd find out if I'm missing something obvious first. > >
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John Isige
At least on my desktop, your addon mentions volume changes, e.g. "NVDA
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volume 60", but my synthesizer volume doesn't change. That's using the SAPI5 version of Eloquence, in case that matters. it seems to apply to all of the SAPI5 voices, but it does change with others, e.g. Microsoft's OneCore. I haven't checked the sounds yet, but I assume if it changes the voice volume, it will affect those as well. I installed the stable version.
On 4/21/2020 16:29, Tony Malykh wrote:
Yes, I wrote an add-on for that - it's called Tony's enhancements.
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Tony Malykh
That would probably imply that sapi5 eloquence is using some other way of playing generated sounds, other than NVDA's API in tones.py. In this case it would probably be impossible to set its volume in a centralized way. I tested my add-on on MIcrosoft sapi5 voices, OneCore, espeak and non-sapi version of eloquence, and it worked for all of them.
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On 4/21/2020 2:50 PM, John Isige wrote:
At least on my desktop, your addon mentions volume changes, e.g. "NVDA
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Jim Doherty
I hope this question isn’t stupid, but what is the ring people are talking
about in this thread?
Jim
From: Gene
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:44 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] Is there a way to change the volume of NVDA's
sounds? I don’t know why, but using the ring only lowers speech and has no effect
on NVDA sounds. I expected the ring and the dialog setting to do the same
thing, but the settings aren’t identical in what they do.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: John
Isige
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 3:26 PM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] Is there a way to change the volume of NVDA's
sounds? Weird!
I'll have to go and try that because I'd think lowering the volume with the synth ring would do the exact same thing. Maybe they are lowered, but if so they're still significantly louder than speech. It's also good to know that with the sound off focus changes will be announced verbally, since I've never messed with that. Thanks all! Oh yeah, I'm watching a video music lesson. Here it is on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz1I4Nc9iV0 I'm doing it from their website because I just started paying for all the lessons, but the volume's all the way up. He's just kind of quiet. Other lessons are louder so they're fine. So I can lower speech currently and turn him up and get a good volume, but you have to go into focus mode to start the video playing, and those sounds are louder than everything else. Now I have a couple ways of fixing it, and I'll bet one of them will work. On 4/21/2020 13:24, Gene wrote: > I don’t know if system sounds would have any bearing on the volume of > these sounds, though I doubt it. These aren’t system sounds, they are > NVDA sounds. I tried Rosemary’s suggestion and I found it both lowers > the volume of speech and of the kinds of sounds being asked about so > it appears that will solve the problem. You may want to remember the > current number of the NVDA sounds settings so you can set it to the > same volume again if you wish. > Gene > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Chris Mullins <mailto:cjmullins29@...> > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:34 PM > *To:* nvda@nvda.groups.io <mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io> > *Subject:* Re: [nvda] Is there a way to change the volume of NVDA's > sounds? > > Hi > > You could try switching off the focus change sounds in NVDA settings, > NVDA will then announce focus changes verbally. Alternatively, you > could turn down System sounds in the Volume Mixer app. > > Cheers > > Chris > > *From: *John Isige <mailto:gwynn@...> > *Sent: *21 April 2020 17:42 > *To: *nvda@nvda.groups.io <mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io> > *Subject: *[nvda] Is there a way to change the volume of NVDA's sounds? > > Hi all. > > Pretty straightforward question, can it be done? I'm listening to some > > fairly faint videos so I have to crank my volume up. I lower the volume > > of my synth with the ring, but NVDA's sounds, e.g. going in and out of > > focus mode, are still pretty loud in comparison to everything else. I > > suppose I could just turn that sound off if it comes down to it, but I > > figured I'd find out if I'm missing something obvious first. > >
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Chris Mullins
Hi Jim It’s a series of keystrokes enabling you to alter aspects of the current synthesizer settings on the fly. You hold down NVDA+Control, then left/right arrows give you access to Volume, voice, rate, rate boost and pitch then loops back to volume, hence the “ring” analogy. Once you have selected one of the above controls, still holding down the NVDA+Control keys, use up/down arrows to adjusct the parameter for that control. Cheers Chris
From: Jim Doherty
Sent: 22 April 2020 10:11 To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Is there a way to change the volume of NVDA's sounds?
I hope this question isn’t stupid, but what is the ring people are talking about in this thread? Jim
From: Gene Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:44 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Is there a way to change the volume of NVDA's sounds?
I don’t know why, but using the ring only lowers speech and has no effect on NVDA sounds. I expected the ring and the dialog setting to do the same thing, but the settings aren’t identical in what they do.
Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: John Isige Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 3:26 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Is there a way to change the volume of NVDA's sounds?
Weird! I'll have to go and try that because I'd think lowering the
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Jim Doherty
Hi Chris,
Every day is a School/learning day. I didn’t know about that ring, thanks
for explaining it to me.
Regards
Jim
From: Chris
Mullins
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 10:29 AM
To: nvda@nvda.groups.io
Subject: Re: [nvda] Is there a way to change the volume of NVDA's
sounds? Hi Jim It’s a series of keystrokes enabling you to alter aspects of the current synthesizer settings on the fly. You hold down NVDA+Control, then left/right arrows give you access to Volume, voice, rate, rate boost and pitch then loops back to volume, hence the “ring” analogy. Once you have selected one of the above controls, still holding down the NVDA+Control keys, use up/down arrows to adjusct the parameter for that control. Cheers Chris
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Jim Doherty
I hope this question isn’t stupid, but what is the ring people are talking about in this thread? Jim
From: Gene Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 10:44 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Is there a way to change the volume of NVDA's sounds?
I don’t know why, but using the ring only lowers speech and has no effect on NVDA sounds. I expected the ring and the dialog setting to do the same thing, but the settings aren’t identical in what they do.
Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: John Isige Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 3:26 PM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Is there a way to change the volume of NVDA's sounds?
Weird! I'll have to go and try that
because I'd think lowering the
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