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OS: Chrome
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Type: Feature
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Add ability to adjust ChromeVox speech volume

Project Member Reported by lpalmaro@chromium.org, May 23 2017

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OS: Chrome

We should add the ability to adjust the volume of ChromeVox speech separate from the system audio volume. We could begin by adding this functionality through a keyboard command like Search + Volume Up and Search + Volume Down to adjust the ChromeVox volume. Eventually, it would also be great to determine a touch gesture to map to this functionality, particularly for using CFM touch machines. 

The volume should never be able to go below 25% though, as to not create confusion for users who turned down the volume of ChromeVox all the way and can't figure out why it's not speaking. We should also consider that every time you turn ChromeVox off then on again, that we should reset the ChromeVox volume to default, again to avoid any user confusion. 
 
Labels: -phase4

Comment 2 by dtseng@chromium.org, Sep 18 2017

This type of feature is usually fraught with subtle edge cases. Users typically don't want to adjust down tts volume much and if they go over 100%, it might act as a adjustment of system volume. Was there a request for this feature by a user? Would be interested in the specific use case.

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