Audio
Sound volume: 55 percent
Background volume: 100 percent
Your social sounds volume: 100 percent
Other people's social sounds volume: 100 percent
Notification volume: 100 percent
Animal sounds volume: 100 percent
Tip: if you play in the Microsoft Edge browser, you will usually find a much bigger selection of voices to choose from.
Opening the game in Microsoft Edge:
Way one:
Step 1: Open Microsoft Edge.
Step 2: Press Control+O to browse for files.
Step 3: Select the downloaded game file, Hogwarts-A-Living-Story.html, and press Enter.
Way two: right-click the game file, choose Open with, then Microsoft Edge.
Your save and your voice pick are kept by the browser you play in, so if you play in Edge, they live in Edge.
Voices marked Online live on Microsoft's servers and stream while they talk, so they need an internet connection to speak. Voices that live in Windows work anywhere, with no connection.
TTS volume: 100 percent
TTS voices: when on, menus announce themselves out loud, parcels are announced, people and animals speak what the game writes about them, and the sound switches above say their new state out loud. Turn voices off and everything is text and ordinary sounds only, exactly as before. Live speech uses your device's own voice and the game's TTS volume.
Optional ambience, effects, and soft Hedwig’s Theme on the opening screen. Sound starts off; enable it to hear the music.
Running the setup again walks you through all 15 sound steps in order, so you can change any sound choice the guided way. It is not a sound test: it does not check or fix sounds, and it does not restart your game. Skip any step to leave it as it is, or finish early.