Waiting 6 years for a feature is ridiculous. I'm sick of nest speakers screaming at me!

[nestscreamsatme]

Simply put, we need to be able to control media and assistant's voice separately.

How do google developers not understand that humans communicate/talk at different volumes than we listen to music and watch movies?

Do you honestly think people go around screaming at each other at the same volume we rock out to music in our garage?

24/7, for the rest of time, I want assistants voice at a normal volume, and media at a higher volume.

I am SICK AND TIRED of being screamed at when I ask a question, because I forgot to change the volume back down after enjoying music.

This is so ridiculous.

All it takes is separate volume controls and WE SHOULD HAVE THEM, because as I explained, people don't listen to media and communicate at the same volumes.

Nest speakers should blend into their environment, to do this requires understanding people which google devs seemingly do not. I don't think they use their own products or else this wouldn't still be an issue after SIX YEARS.

All day I'm constantly turning the volume up and down when I could not have to touch the volume EVER.

This applies to many other use cases, like parents with sleeping babies. Oh, did you listen to music earlier, now it's time to wake your baby up because you asked about the time or weather.

THOUSANDS OF POSTS ABOUT IT ON REDDIT, HERE, AND ELSEWHERE OVER THE YEARS. HOW DO YOU NOT GET THE POINT? How do you continue to ignore feature requests by this logic?

[Blehp]

hi absolutely agree with you that someone who is responsible for the production of this device is out of touch and/or not considering the importance of getting a problem like this one resolved. However I would be surprised if one or multiple people have considered your exact solution and honestly there are likely genius ideas that were imagined and worked on to eliminate this issue, but it should not surprise anyone that the development team is led by someone and that person reports to someone else and it’s possible that neither of those people are engineers or designers, but what they are good at is rushing a product to market, selling it at a price much higher than it’s worth, making quality assurances and unrealistic promises to fix older products, collecting a bonus after launch, and skipping across the corporate cesspool to spearhead something else, (probably some product they know nothing about, never used and do not plan to use).

the engineers are capable of missing something like this of course but I am sure that if these products were made with unrushed passion by people who want the product they are making when it’s finished, and adequately tested before release then they would agree to the necessity to resolve this issue. 

So I join you comrade but not against the creative team, against the middel-upper management f𝓊𝒸ks who are actively making all of our lives (including their own) worse every day.

[nestscreamsatme]

As a developer, no. I don't believe that after six years it's just some managers fault.

Google developers are worldclass losers who are some of the worst in the industry.

This would have been built in from day one is they weren't incompetent nerds who probably don't even listen to music, just watch japanese cartoons.