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Application Specific Volume in Vista
by Aaron Smith on Wednesday, March 14 2007I read a post yesterday on Vista Rewired that reminded me about how you can use the Vista volume mixer to control Window-Eyes volume when using a software synthesizer, such as the DECtalk Access 32, or Eloquence. In fact, what's great about this feature is that any application can add itself to the mixer, meaning you can control separate volumes for separate applications. So apps like Windows Media Player, and Real Player, can all be controled separately from each other, and from Window-Eyes. There are some quirks. For example, Real Player doesn't show up as Real Player, but rather "Name Not Available." Window-Eyes shows up as Speech32. And it's possible for applications that you want to show up, like Winamp, to not show up. Hopefully, they'll rectify that in a future version. If your volume control is in the system tray, you can access the mixer by pressing WINDOWS-B (to focus the system tray), arrowing to the volume icon, pressing the context menu, and selecting the mixer item.
