Say() is ignoring volume

Add-ons Text-to-Speech
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Hello,

I’m using say to output Text-to-speech on the analog audio output of the Raspberry Pi. I can change the volume using alsamixer. But the volume within the command say() is ignored.

I tried
say(“Test”, new PercentType(25))
and
say(“Test”, “voicerss:deDE”, new PercentType(25))
but the volume is the same and doesn’t change while I chage the number in PercentType.

How can I solve this?
Fred

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You should make an extra item

Number ChromecastVolume   "Volume Chromecast"  { channel = "chromecast:chromecast:vcvcvcvvcvcvcvcvc:volume"}

Before you use say()

ChromecastVolume.sendCommand(25)
say()
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I don’t use Chromcast for the output. I use the analog audio output of the Raspberry Pi or a USB sound card. So I don’t have this channel. Or is there a way to link the volume of the Raspberry Pi to a Number?

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I am sorry if have misread that you used the Rpi output.

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With the Rpi output, you will need to control the volume separately via a script.

You should test first to see if it is configured to use the 3.5mm jack and not the HDMI audio output.

If I recall you can write a script to execute the settings for volume via ALSA.

/usr/bin/amixer cset numid=1 100%
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