Re: [Espeak-general] Volume Shoots up to 100% on doing eSpeak_Configure

[Tim C. <tc...@ra...>]

From: Jonathan Duddington <jo...@ta...>
Subject: Re: [Espeak-general] Volume Shoots up to 100% on doing eSpeak_Configure
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 15:48:00 +0000 (GMT)

> On 14 May, Soumen banerjee <sou...@gm...> wrote:
> 
>> Every time I run my code, the volume shoots up to 100%, and In
>> general, it does not happen otherwise. What do you think is the
>> problem anyway?
> 
> I compiled the small program from your email.  It runs OK and speaks
> "Hello World".  I set my system audio level to a low level.  It did not
> make any changes to the system audio levels.
> 
> So I have no idea what is causing your problem.
> 
> Does this problem also occur when you use the "espeak" program from a
> command-line, eg:
> 
> espeak "hello world"
> 
> Does it happen with "speak" program?  This is a stand-alone version
> which doesn't use the libespeak library.
> 
> speak "hello world"
> 

This may or may not be useful, but what version of pulseaudio are you running?
I had a similar issue with pulseaudio - I think it was pre version 1.0.18.
Once I upgraded pulseaudio to a later version, the problem was no longer
evident. 

Tim