OVOS dated today: the blebop after I say Hey Mcroft

[geetee24]

OVOS dated today: the blebop after I say Hey Mcroft - that volume is very low. the answer the MC speaks is at a high volume (I reviews ALSAMIXER and all it goofd.

what dictates the volume for the bleep after I say HEY MC ?

[goldyfruit]

Acknowledge sound is a .wav file handled by default by aplay (ALSA) but depending your TTS, sometime the generated files will be .mp3 which might be handled by paplay (PulseAudio) or pw-play (PipeWire) which could have different sound levels depending the hardware.

Got this behaviour with a Google AIY Voice Kit V1.

[geetee24]

Can you tell me the paths for the source file and the destination file and then how would I set that volume using any of the methods that may be an action? I am consuming the standard OVOS raspberry pie image, so I don’t know what my actual speaking engine is. How do I find out what that may be? Thank you.

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[goldyfruit]

Default TTS will be Piper provided by the OVOS TTS public servers: https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/status

I think on RaspOVOS, the path to the file is ~/.venvs/ovos/lib/python3.11/site-packages/ovos_audio/res/snd/start_listening.wav.

RaspOVOS still use PulseAudio so you will have to set play_wav_cmdline and play_mp3_cmdline in your mycroft.conf to paplay with the --volume argument (0 = mute, 65536 = 100%)

https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-config/blob/dev/ovos_config/mycroft.conf#L59-L64

  "play_wav_cmdline": "paplay --volume 65536 %1 ",
  "play_mp3_cmdline": "paplay --volume 65536 %1",

This will set the volume as 100%.

[geetee24]

nope. it affects globally. ovos has 2 volumes. 1 for everything. 1 for just this file

[geetee24]

the issue is on ovos what is controlling the volume that mpg123 uses? i cant change alsamixer for that is a global change.

[JarbasAl]

OVOS does not control that volume at all, it just tells the OS to play the sounds, I'm not sure of the root cause of your issue and why they would be different

the suggestions from @goldyfruit is the only way to force OVOS to indirectly control the volume, otherwise it's all up to the operating system

[geetee24]

thanks. for trying. can you tell me what interface (pulse, etc) ovos is using? I am trying to also see what mpg123 is using

[JarbasAl]

OVOs will use whatever your OS uses, it could be pulseaudio, pipewire or in ancient setups just pure alsa

OVOS only uses the playback commands and then let's the OS do it's usual thing without requiring any specific audio interface

[geetee24]

interesting fact: mpg123 has the low volume issue. aplay is same volume as ovos :)

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[goldyfruit]

aplay uses ALSA layer directly and bypasses PipeWire or PulseAudio. aplay can't play mp3 files.