Context and environment aware volume control in telephonic conversation

A computer program product for automatically adjusting telephonic conversation volume, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to:

• detect a telephone is being used for a telephone conversation;
• obtain microphone data from at least one microphone in communication with or incorporated in the telephone;
• detect, using the microphone data, sensitive or confidential subject matter in the conversation using natural language processing;
• receive, via a user interface of the computing device, a user selection to configure an alert notifying the user when it is determined to reduce the volume of a speaker of the telephone;
• automatically reduce the volume of the speaker of the telephone based on the detecting the sensitive or confidential subject matter;
• obtain camera data from at least one camera in communication with or incorporated in the telephone;
• determine, using images in the camera data, that another person's detected mood has changed from a first mood to a second mood indicating a level of annoyance of the other person using facial recognition programming to analyze the images;
• and
• automatically adjust the volume of the speaker of the telephone based on the determined level of annoyance of the other person.