Re: Volume control on debian system? (Was: Bug#985666: alsa-utils: no sound after installation)

[Nick Gawronski <nick@nickgawronski.com>]

Hi, With the current setup on my system I can modify the volume on alsa 
and then espeakup works at it's maximum setting and this way other 
applications who wish to use their own volume setting can do so and the 
volume of the speech is not effected by their volume.  If you have 
espeakup be the only way to change the volume then if a user was 
listening to a podcast they could only control the levels of the podcast 
threw the speakup controls and not their media player.  I like the alsa 
way to control what the maximum volume is for the entire system and then 
allow applications to have their own volume controls so you can have 
different volume settings for speech and music.  Nick Gawronski

On 4/3/2021 5:46 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Nick Gawronski, le sam. 03 avril 2021 17:42:48 -0500, a ecrit:
> > So you are saying that when espeakup controls the speech alsa mixers
> > can not be used anymore
> Yes. More precisely, I mean that currently espeakup doesn't fully
> control the volume. I can make espeakup thoroughly control the volume,
> and thus be able to reach maximum volume level through the shortcuts.
> But if I do that then changing the volume in amixer/alsamixer will get
> overriden by espeakup, so speakup's shortcuts for volume will be the
> only way to change the volume. Just like this is currently happening in
> the debian installer.
>
> Samuel