[PATCH] change defaultvolume in speechd.conf

[Hynek Hanke]

On 30.9.2010 01:34, Halim Sahin wrote:
> Using the maximum value in speechd.conf  for the default volume forces
> users to specify the value in every call to eg. spd-say.
> -100 ... +100 are possible so 0 would be a good choice.
>    

This is unfortunatelly not right.

As you can see in the config file comment, +100 maps
to the default volume of the synthesizer and this is also
currently the highest volume we can get in Speech Dispatcher,
since most backends do not support amplifying the sound.
If we use sound data scaling, we can only scale down.

So yes, this is a hack, it should be 0 -- default, +100 loudest,
-100 lowest/silence.

Coordination of sound levels between various applications
is a pain on the linux desktop, at least for me :)

I think a real solution lies in the sound systems. I'm really
not an expert in this, but I think, to make a sound arbitrarily
louder, the sound system needs to move the master level
on the card and then adjust the downscaling of all other
clients. Something that Pulse Audio could easily do, maybe
it already does.

Best regards,
Hynek Hanke