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Questions tagged [microphone]

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How do I automatically adjust volume according to the sound around me?

I live next to a big road. Having the window open at night is blessedly cool and, intermittently, very loud. How could I adjust the volume automatically, based on the built-in microphone input? If I set the volume so that I can hear speech in a…
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What is the proper way to declare the built-in microphone as mono?

I had some strange issues with the built-in microphone on a Lenovo IdeaPad 310-15IKB laptop under Linux Mint 19.1. For example, it was not working with Skype, but was working with Gnome Sound Recorder. The microphone input volume indicator in…
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Set pulseaudio sample rate for a single source

I have a Logitech C310 webcam, which pulseaudio believes has a sample rate of 48 kHz. However, the hardware only works at 16 kHz. Most applications will try to use the 16 Khz audio at 48 kHz, resulting in a high-pitched squirrel or chipmunk…
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Fix Skype audio input in Mint 17 Cinnamon

Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon (Ubuntu 14.04) HDA Intel PCH The microphone works well (tested with VLC's capture mode), but Skype won't catch any sound. Only PulseAudio is listed in Skype's configuration as microphone option. Amplifying the input audio to…
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Bluetoth headset microphone not working - HSP/HFP unavailable

Im usuig Ubuntu 20.04 and try to use my headset (Xiaomi Mi True Wireless) for video conferencing, so sound input and output are required. When try to select the HSP/HFP Profile in pavucontrol I get only the choice between: High Fidelity Playback…
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How to monitor microphone volume level?

I've found a solution that doesn't work by me: audio - Monitoring the microphone level with a command line tool in Linux - Super User https://superuser.com/questions/306701/monitoring-the-microphone-level-with-a-command-line-tool-in-linux The…
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How do I get Mint to recognize my laptop's microphone as a mono input instead of stereo input?

I'm having an issue with Mint XFCE 17.2 detecting my laptop's internal microphone as a stereo microphone at a hardware level. The problem is that, since it's a mono device, the microphone's "right channel" is complete static: As I've come to find…
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Fedora 34 Pipewire 0.3.38-1.fc34 microphone detected but no sound input

What is happening I recently installed fedora 34 on my laptop, before I was using Ubuntu 18.04 and my mic was working fine, them I decided to change to fedora 34 and everything was ok until I try to use my microphone and I figured that it just…
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bluetooth earbuds microphone not working on ubuntu 18.04

I have an mpow M5 bluetooth earbuds. They work flawlessly on my Oneplus 6 android device, using Android 10. But when I connect to my notebook using ubuntu 18.04 and open audio settings it won't recognize my bluetooth earbuds microphone. I tried…
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Microphone noise reduction

I installed Ubuntu 14.04 with dualboot. But i have problem with microphone noise. I can not find any noise reduction in Ubuntu. Sound quality is for me quite important, because i am talking with friends on TeamSpeak, recording videos on youtube and…
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Default input device sox

I'm trying to configure sox to use a webcam that I just ordered. I've confirmed that the mic works through the GUI. I ran arecord -l and found that the card, device numbers are 1 and 0, respectively. I'm using sox through a Node.js library that runs…
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Microphone is detected, but no input from it

I am currently using Pop!_OS version 22.04 LTS. I was trying to get on a Discord call with a friend, but he couldn't hear me. I later discovered that it would detect audio out as the input. I went to settings to find out that it was not detecting my…
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How to mix two input sources in Pulseaudio (for recording mic and speakers with SimpleScreenRecorder)

I happen to record a meeting using SimpleScreenRecorder (SSR) on Linux. I use Pulseaudio and default configurations. When SSR records the screen and audio, it records the speakers output, but not my microphone. I know that I can create a loopback…
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Playing, recording, and streaming sound with cat and /dev/dsp

A couple of comments on Hacker News suggest that, on FreeBSD, you can: use cat to send a file ( a .wav file for instance ) to the audio speaker (/dev/dsp). record from the mic using a similar method. send a live stream across the network (using…
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How to detect whether a program records from the microphone?

I know it is possible to check whether the webcam is currently opened or not. But is there a similar way to check whether it is currently being recording from a microphone? I was poking around a bit in /dev/snd/, had a quick look at Pulseaudio…
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