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How to mix two input sources in Pulseaudio (for recording mic and speakers with SimpleScreenRecorder)
If you want to record both microphone and speakers output then create virtual speaker and two loopback modules: one which mirrors microphone to virtual speaker and the second one which mirrors your ...
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How to enable my microphone in Linux Mint?
I think this should be a comment, but since my reputation does not allow me to comment here it goes as an answer...
Have you checked your microphone is not silenced? I installed Linux Mint recently ...
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Changing input audio source and setting it to mono on Debian Jessie/8 using commands
The OP post mentions changing the input to mono, but the other solution changes the output to mono.
To change the input to mono (this was necessary when I connected my mic to the Lexicon Alpha xlr ...
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Ham Radio simulator: live streaming microphone audio between 2 browsers, connected via ubuntu 22
If you're looking for a simple open-source API solution, I recommend WebRTC.
WebRTC is open source and was developed by Google under the BSD license.
It is optimized for peer-to-peer audio/video ...
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Routing application to a virtual microphone (pulseaudio)
PulseAudio has audio sources (where sound comes from, e.g. a microphone), and sinks (where it goes to, e.g. speakers). Applications that record connect to a source, and applications that play back ...
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Mute all microphons with one command
Though this does not answer your question, what will work is using
pactl set-source-mute @DEFAULT_SOURCE@ toggle
To toggle the microphone currently in use or
pactl set-source-mute @DEFAULT_SOURCE@ 1
...
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Set pulseaudio sample rate for a single source
I was looking for the same answer, for the same camera. I found it in the pulse-cli-syntax manpage. I had to add a line to my /etc/pulse/default.pa
update-source-proplist alsa_input.usb-...
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xfreerdp microphone forwarding, but Windows says “No audio devices are installed”
The solution is:
Open command prompt (cmd.exe) as administrator.
Type "gpedit" (without the quotes) and press Enter.
Go to Computer Configuration --> Administrative Templates --> Windows
Components -->...
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How to detect whether a program records from the microphone?
A general solution that does not rely on Pulseaudio would be ideal.
Most if not all popular modern Linux distros use Pulseaudio which opens ALSA kernel devices and keeps them open at all times which ...
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Headsets compatible with Linux
PC headsets either use analog audio or USB audio or Bluetooth audio. They should work with Linux.
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bluetooth earbuds microphone not working on ubuntu 18.04
After a lot of research and bumping my head, I decided to try out a bluetooth dongle, and manage to get it working. here's what I did:
I bought an Orico 5.0 bluetooth dongle.
list usb devices using ...
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How to find out the internal microphone's driver on a Linux PC?
lspci -v
Lspci is a command on Unix-like operating systems that print a "list" of detailed information about all buses and PCI devices in the system.
output:
01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro ...
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How do i disable Logitech G430 sidetone/mic monitoring/listening?
Open AlsaMixer by typing alsamixer into the terminal, then press F6 and select Logitech G430 Gaming Headset from the list of available soundcards on your computer. After that, you will be presented ...
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Why isn't my microphone being detected by Settings|Sound|Input on Debian 10?
Partial answer:
Both amixer -c0 contents and cat /proc/asound/card*/codec#* give exactly the same results with or without the mic plugged in.
That means your codec cannot detect that the mic is ...
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Microphone recognised in pavucontrol but not useable
I had the same problem with Ubuntu 20.04. What I did was to update the linux kernel. If you type
uname -a
to find out which version you have, then see if you are on 5.6 or 5.8
I was on 5.6-1020 and ...
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How to monitor microphone volume level?
(Answer based on various comments, as this method seems to be acceptable, and comments are not guaranteed to stay.)
Look at the first recording ("10 secs of silence") in an audio editor, e.g. ...
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How to fix XPS 9700 Microphone? (Given audio is fixed)
I've fixed it just toggling Audio devices enable through BIOS setup (disable -> save -> enable again -> save -> exit).
Fresh Ubuntu 21.04, 5.11.0-22-generic, no any additional configs/...
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Mute all microphons with one command
Using awk you could find and iterate over all inputs:
pactl list short sources | awk '/input.*RUNNING/ {system("pactl set-source-mute " $1 " toggle")}'
NOTE: If an microphone is ...
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Bluetooth HSP/HFP and A2DP Problem: Switching between profiles not working
That is something we would all like to have but A2DP gives good quality stereo sound but DOES NOT support mic at same time. As you already know the HSP/HFP sound is only mono and very poor to bad ...
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External Microphone not does not work on Linux Mint 20 Ulyana
Hi People,
I've been through this for days too and finally I've solved it.
Open your terminal
type [alsamixer]
Validate by hiting [Enter]
Get all the Headphones values from -65,25 <>-62,25 up ...
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Plugging in webcam microphone causes sound to stop working
Well, as it turns out, it is the webcam's fault. The sound chip thingy (?) in the webcam isn't configured properly, such that the computer thinks it's both an input and an output.
Solution: In Pulse ...
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Bluetooth headphone's mic not working on Linux Mint
I was able to get my AirPods Pro working on Linux Mint 20 by following these instructions:
https://reckoning.dev/airpods-pro-ubuntu/
I wish I understood better what the problem is, but whne it comes ...
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How to hear the mic from the CLI?
arecord -f cd - | aplay -
Should do it but it may lead to quite nasty consequences if you're not using headphones.
Also read this topic: https://askubuntu.com/questions/123798/how-to-hear-my-voice-in-...
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Text-mode tool to view audio input level
You can use sox. Example with Pulseaudio and my webcam as source:
sox -S -t pulseaudio alsa_input.usb-046d_0809_23E942AD-02.analog-mono -n stats
Also works with ALSA devices, you can specify a ...
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Microphone Crackling
I found this Stackexchange question trying to troubleshoot a similar issue. Although I cannot be 100% sure our issues are from the same cause I notice some similarities and hope this will help.
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How do i disable Logitech G430 sidetone/mic monitoring/listening?
Click the MUTE button of the headset on its cable.
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Microphone loopback on Linux
I could not replicate this on another machine.
You probably need to specify which sources and sinks to use with module-loopback. See the module documentation for details.
This is a fairly technical ...
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Is there a /dev/video0 like default for pc-microphones?
No, sound in Linux is based on alsa: no user space nodes for audio stream like /dev/video0.
You can do some piping though: If you want to dig into this: two keywords: alsa, pipeline.
Have fun!
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Debian 10: No microphone access on Chromium based browsers
I solved a similar problem : no more microphone on Chromium (and Firefox too).
# uname -a
Linux debian 5.4.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.4.13-1~bpo10+1 (2020-02-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux
# arecord -l
**...
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