Re: using microphone
On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 16:14 +0100, berenger.morel@neutralite.org wrote:
> >> I think this message may lack informations, but I have no idea about
> >> what I can give except those one...
> >>
> > OK, so you've established that your microphone is working. You don't
> > normally want to hear your voice back when you speak into it, so mute
> > the microphone output (but not the input). You should be able to use
> > the sound recorder to still record your voice and play it back but
> > you
> > won't hear it when speaking.
> >
> > Skype has a pulldown menu at the bottom left of the skype window.
> > Select Options | Sound Devices and try the different microphone
> > devices until you find one that works with the Skype test call.
>
> Sounds like I did not explained the problem correctly, so let me retry.
>
> I have established that the microphone works, yes, because when I
> unmute it in alsamixer, I can hear back my voice amplified.
> But I did not found any way to use it into skype or mumble (I did not
> tried other softwares).
>
> I do not know how to mute only the microphone output but not the input?
IIRC you can forget about jack in this case. Is pulseaudio installed?
Many skype users report, that they like to use pulseaudio.
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