changing the audio ducking on my win7 desktop solved the level issue. That setting is also under sounds on the win 7 machine.
Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA -----Original Message----- From: Skypeenglish [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Doug Lee via Skypeenglish Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 16:57 To: Ray T. Mahorney via Skypeenglish Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] a couple of annoying issues I missed the history of this thread, but... If you mean that calls lower the volume levels for your input and/or output sound devices, try restarting Skype to see if your "don't adjust levels" setting takes effect. If you mean that Skype calls turn down the volumes of other things like screen readers and system sounds, that's a fairly new feature of Windows itself, called audio ducking, as in making one audio signal "duck under" another one. To disable that feature, at least on Windows 8, this should work: - Press the Windows key to get the Start screen. - Type the word Sound and wait for search results. - Arrow down to "Change system sounds" and press Enter. - Shift+Tab to the Sounds tab, then arrow right to the Communications tab. - Tab once. You should encounter a radio button like "Reduce volume by 50%." - Arrow up or down to the "Do nothing" radio button. - Press Enter, or Tab to OK and press Space, to save the change and exit the applet. Some laptops with Realtek sound hardware may need an additional step, which is to turn off the "Loudness Equalization" feature specific to that hardware. Unfortunately I don't have precise directions on how to do that, both because Realtek screens don't all look identicial as far as I recall, and because they are also a little bouncy in the accessibility department in at least some cases. Try the above directions and see if that's enough. On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 04:10:35PM -0000, Ray T. Mahorney via Skypeenglish wrote: First the level gets pulled way down during a call even though I thought I unchecked all the various boxes which told it to adjust levels automatically. Is there something I missed? Also, the hotkeys to answer and end calls are not functioning as advertised even though they are enabled. in this case alt+page up which should answer the call does not. Again, operator error? Ray T. Mahorney WA4WGA -- Doug Lee [email protected] http://www.dlee.org SSB BART Group [email protected] http://www.ssbbartgroup.com "I forgot, because I wanted to forget, except I don't remember forgetting." --Sarah Alawami Thanks for posting to the skype english list. to contact skype support with any questions regarding your account email [email protected] To access scripts for the latest version of skype go to http://www.dlee.org/skype To contact the list owner send a message to mailto:[email protected] and for a searchable archives page go here. https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] to modify yoru subscription visit the list info link at the bottom of this email, or click the link in the email you receive with your list password each month. thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list [email protected] http://lists.tffppodcast.com/listinfo.cgi/skypeenglish-tffppodcast.com Thanks for posting to the skype english list. to contact skype support with any questions regarding your account email [email protected] To access scripts for the latest version of skype go to http://www.dlee.org/skype To contact the list owner send a message to mailto:[email protected] and for a searchable archives page go here. https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] to modify yoru subscription visit the list info link at the bottom of this email, or click the link in the email you receive with your list password each month. thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list [email protected] http://lists.tffppodcast.com/listinfo.cgi/skypeenglish-tffppodcast.com
